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Danafungia mushroom coral (no English common name)
Danafungia horrida
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 716608, checked 2026-10-31).
Possibly present in the Maldives
- English
- Danafungia mushroom coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Danafungia horrida
- 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 large, free-living mushroom coral with a round to oval disc and tall, toothed ridges (septa) radiating from the centre. 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/Danafungia-horrida.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=716608
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Coral_plato_(Danafungia_horrida),_Anilao,_Filipinas,_2023-0
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.