Maldives Marine Life

Marine life of Maldivian waters

← All species
Coelastrea coral (no English common name)
No photo available
Photo: Zoe Richards et al / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 (view on Wikimedia Commons)Collected specimen photographed out of water. Coral photo: species not verifiable from image.

Coelastrea coral (no English common name)

Coelastrea aspera

Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 762427, checked 2026-10-31).

Possibly present in the Maldives

English
Coelastrea coral (no English common name)
Scientific
Coelastrea aspera
Dhivehi
No recorded Dhivehi name
Group
Hard corals
Family
Merulinidae (brain, honeycomb and horn corals)
Depth and habitat
Reef-associated, recorded from 0 to 40 m
IUCN status
LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II
Record in the Maldives
Possibly present

Description

A massive coral with rounded to polygonal cups, close to Goniastrea in appearance.

In the Maldives

Recorded from the Maldives: literature records via OBIS (IndOBIS). Only one kind of evidence was found, so it is listed as possibly present.

Sources

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