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Pentagonal honeycomb coral
Favites pentagona
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207446, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Pentagonal honeycomb coral
- Scientific
- Favites pentagona
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard 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 or encrusting coral with small, polygonal cups that share walls, often five-sided, in a neat honeycomb. Colonies are often brown, green or reddish, with contrasting cup centres. It grows on reef slopes and in lagoons and is one of the easier Favites to recognise.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=17); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=2); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Favites-pentagona.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207446
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Favites_pentagona.JPG
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.