Maldives Marine Life

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Astrea coral (no English common name)
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Photo: ewoutknoester / iNaturalist, CC BY-SA 4.0 (view on iNaturalist)iNaturalist research-grade observation. Coral photo: species not verifiable from image.

Astrea coral (no English common name)

Astrea rotulosa

Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 762418, checked 2026-10-31).

English
Astrea coral (no English common name)
Scientific
Astrea rotulosa
Dhivehi
No recorded Dhivehi name
Group
Hard corals
Family
Merulinidae (brain, honeycomb and horn corals)
Depth and habitat
Sea floor (benthic)
IUCN status
LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II

Description

A massive, rounded coral with small to medium, round, separate cups. It is told apart from related species only by close examination of the skeleton.

In the Maldives

Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=5); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS).

Sources

Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.