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Cycloseris mushroom coral (no English common name)
Cycloseris wellsi
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 716291, checked 2026-10-31).
Possibly present in the Maldives
- English
- Cycloseris mushroom coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Cycloseris wellsi
- 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 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: literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013)). Only one kind of evidence was found, so it is listed as possibly present.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Cycloseris-wellsi.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=716291
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Cycloseris_wellsi_2.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.