Maldives Marine Life

Marine life of Maldivian waters

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

Favites coral (no English common name)

Favites vasta

Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 430663, checked 2026-10-31).

Possibly present in the Maldives

English
Favites coral (no English common name)
Scientific
Favites vasta
Dhivehi
No recorded Dhivehi name
Group
Hard corals
Family
Merulinidae (brain, honeycomb and horn corals)
Depth and habitat
Reef-associated
IUCN status
LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II
Record in the Maldives
Possibly present

Description

A massive coral with large, deep, honeycomb-like cups that share thick walls. Colonies are usually brown or green and grow on reef slopes. It needs close examination to tell from similar Favites.

In the Maldives

Recorded from the Maldives: iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=3). Only one kind of evidence was found, so it is listed as possibly present.

Sources

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