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Montipora coral (no English common name)
Montipora monasteriata
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207153, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Montipora coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Montipora monasteriata
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated, recorded from 0 to 48 m
- IUCN status
- VU · VulnerableVulnerable (VU), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II
Description
A Montipora coral: one of the most common reef-building genera, with very small cups set in a porous surface that is often roughened with tiny bumps or ridges. Colonies may be encrusting, plate-like, branching or a mix of these. 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
- sealifebase.se /summary/Montipora-monasteriata.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207153
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Montipora_monasteriata,_colonia.jpeg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.