Maldives Marine Life

Marine life of Maldivian waters

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

Favites coral (no English common name)

Favites magnistellata

Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 1289661, checked 2026-10-31).

English
Favites coral (no English common name)
Scientific
Favites magnistellata
Dhivehi
No recorded Dhivehi name
Group
Hard corals
Family
Merulinidae (brain, honeycomb and horn corals)
Depth and habitat
recorded from 0 to 40 m
IUCN status
LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II

Description

A massive coral with large, honeycomb-like cups that share walls. Colonies are usually brown or green. It grows on reef slopes. Like other Favites, it needs a close look at cup size and walls to identify.

In the Maldives

Recorded from the Maldives: iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=1); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.

Sources

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