Maldives Marine Life

Marine life of Maldivian waters

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Prickly-pored coral
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Prickly-pored coral

Echinopora hirsutissima

Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207420, checked 2026-10-31).

English
Prickly-pored coral
Scientific
Echinopora hirsutissima
Dhivehi
No recorded Dhivehi name
Group
Hard corals
Family
Merulinidae (brain, honeycomb and horn corals)
Depth and habitat
Reef-associated, recorded from 1 to 38 m
IUCN status
LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II

Description

A coral with a rough, spiny surface and small raised cups, growing as plates, encrusting sheets, branches or a mix of these. It is told apart from related species only by close examination of the skeleton.

In the Maldives

Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=17); 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.