Acropora coral (no English common name)
Acropora tenuis
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207105, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Acropora coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Acropora tenuis
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated, recorded from 3 to 20 m
- IUCN status
- EN · EndangeredEndangered (EN), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II
Description
A neat, rounded or plate-like Acropora with fine, short branches and side cups arranged in tidy rows with flared lips. Colonies are often cream, brown, green or blue and grow on upper reef slopes and reef edges. It is common across the Indo-Pacific.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=13, QM); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=12); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013)); 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
- sealifebase.se /summary/Acropora-tenuis.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207105
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Acropora_tenuis_Maldives.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.