Maldives Marine Life

Marine life of Maldivian waters

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

Turbinaria coral (no English common name)

Turbinaria stellulata

Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207510, checked 2026-10-31).

English
Turbinaria coral (no English common name)
Scientific
Turbinaria stellulata
Dhivehi
No recorded Dhivehi name
Group
Hard corals
Family
Dendrophylliidae (sun, cup and turban corals)
Depth and habitat
Reef-associated, recorded from 0 to 40 m
IUCN status
LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II

Description

A Turbinaria that forms encrusting sheets or low, rounded colonies with small, raised cups. Colonies are usually brown or greenish and grow on reef flats and slopes.

In the Maldives

Recorded from the Maldives: iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=2); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013)).

Sources

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