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Goniastrea coral (no English common name)
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Goniastrea coral (no English common name)

Goniastrea stelligera

Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 763067, checked 2026-10-31). Recorded in Maldives sources as Favia stelligera.

English
Goniastrea coral (no English common name)
Scientific
Goniastrea stelligera
Dhivehi
No recorded Dhivehi name
Group
Hard corals
Family
Merulinidae (brain, honeycomb and horn corals)
Depth and habitat
Sea floor (benthic)
IUCN status
LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II

Description

A massive coral with cups that share walls in a honeycomb or short-valley pattern. It is common on reef flats and upper slopes. It is told apart from related species only by close examination of the skeleton.

In the Maldives

Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=2); 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.