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Acropora coral (no English common name)
Acropora longicyathus
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207114, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Acropora coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Acropora longicyathus
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)CITES Appendix II
Description
A branching Acropora with long, tube-shaped side cups. It is told apart from related species only by close examination of the skeleton.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.
Sources
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207114
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Acropora_longicyathus_208157854.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.