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Ctenactis mushroom coral (no English common name)
Ctenactis crassa
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 288875, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Ctenactis mushroom coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Ctenactis crassa
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated, recorded from 0 to 40 m
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2022CITES Appendix II
Description
A long, slipper-shaped mushroom coral with thick ridges. It is told apart from related species only by close examination of the skeleton.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=1); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Ctenactis-crassa.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=288875
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Coral_plato_(Ctenactis_crassa),_mar_Rojo,_Egipto,_2023-04-1
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.