Maldives Marine Life

Marine life of Maldivian waters

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Favites coral (no English common name)
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Photo: Ahmed Abdul Rahman for MDC Seamarc Maldives / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (view on Wikimedia Commons)Photographed in the Maldives. Coral photo: species not verifiable from image.

Favites coral (no English common name)

Favites halicora

Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207447, checked 2026-10-31).

English
Favites coral (no English common name)
Scientific
Favites halicora
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

Description

A massive coral whose cups share common walls, giving the colony a honeycomb look. Colonies are usually rounded or flattened and often brown, green or cream. It is told apart from related species only by close examination of the skeleton.

In the Maldives

Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=3); 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.