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Cycloseris mushroom coral (no English common name)
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Cycloseris mushroom coral (no English common name)

Cycloseris distorta

Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207326, checked 2026-10-31).

English
Cycloseris mushroom coral (no English common name)
Scientific
Cycloseris distorta
Dhivehi
No recorded Dhivehi name
Group
Hard corals
Family
Fungiidae (mushroom corals)
Depth and habitat
Reef-associated, recorded from 0 to 475 m
IUCN status
LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2022CITES Appendix II

Description

A small, free-living mushroom coral, round or slightly oval, that usually lives on sand or rubble around reefs. 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); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.

Sources

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