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Rough feather coral
Ctenactis echinata
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 216132, checked 2026-10-31).
Possibly present in the Maldives
- English
- Rough feather coral
- Scientific
- Ctenactis echinata
- 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
- Record in the Maldives
- Possibly present
Description
A long, slipper-shaped mushroom coral with spiny ridges. 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/Ctenactis-echinata.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216132
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Coral_plato_(Ctenactis_echinata),_mar_Rojo,_Egipto,_2023-04
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.