Acropora coral (no English common name)
Acropora robusta
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207000, checked 2026-10-31). Recorded in Maldives sources as Acropora nobilis.
- English
- Acropora coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Acropora robusta
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)CITES Appendix II
Description
A robust Acropora with thick, stout, conical branches spreading from an encrusting centre, typical of reef edges and crests pounded by surf. Colonies are often green, brown or cream, sometimes with pink or purple tips. It includes colonies formerly named Acropora nobilis.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=11, QM); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=2); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist. Branching and table corals of this kind were among the worst hit by the 1998 and 2016 mass bleaching events in the Maldives.
Sources
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207000
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Acropora_robusta_medium_Maldives.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.