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Favites coral (no English common name)
Favites melicerum
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 758217, checked 2026-10-31).
Possibly present in the Maldives
- English
- Favites coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Favites melicerum
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- 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 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: literature records via OBIS (IndOBIS). Only one kind of evidence was found, so it is listed as possibly present.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Favites-melicerum.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=758217
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.