Maldives Marine Life

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Encrusting pore coral
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Encrusting pore coral

Montipora aequituberculata

Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207144, checked 2026-10-31).

English
Encrusting pore coral
Scientific
Montipora aequituberculata
Dhivehi
No recorded Dhivehi name
Group
Hard corals
Family
Acroporidae (staghorn, table and plate corals)
Depth and habitat
Reef-associated, recorded from 0 to 59 m
IUCN status
EN · EndangeredEndangered (EN), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II

Description

A plate-forming or encrusting Montipora with a surface covered in even, rounded bumps. 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 (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013)); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.

Sources

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