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Favites coral (no English common name)
Favites valenciennesii
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 763525, checked 2026-10-31). Recorded in Maldives sources as Favites valenciennesi.
- English
- Favites coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Favites valenciennesii
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- recorded from 0 to 40 m
- IUCN status
- EN · EndangeredEndangered (EN), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II
Description
A massive honeycomb coral with cups that share walls. Colonies are rounded or flattened, usually brown, green or cream. It grows on reef slopes and in lagoons. Identifying it reliably needs a close look at the cups.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=2); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=1); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Favites-valenciennesii.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=763525
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.