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Alveopora coral (no English common name)
Alveopora daedalea
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207200, checked 2026-10-31).
Possibly present in the Maldives
- English
- Alveopora coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Alveopora daedalea
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated
- IUCN status
- EN · EndangeredEndangered (EN), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II
- Record in the Maldives
- Possibly present
Description
An Alveopora that forms rounded colonies with long, fleshy polyps. 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), IndOBIS). Only one kind of evidence was found, so it is listed as possibly present.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Alveopora-daedalea.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207200
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.