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Danafungia mushroom coral (no English common name)
Danafungia scruposa
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 716609, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Danafungia mushroom coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Danafungia scruposa
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated, recorded from 0 to 40 m
- IUCN status
- EN · EndangeredEndangered (EN), assessed 2022CITES Appendix II
Description
A large, free-living mushroom coral with a round to slightly oval disc and tall, toothed ridges radiating from a central mouth. It usually lies loose on the reef or on rubble and is brown, green or cream. Mushroom corals can right themselves and move short distances if overturned.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=1); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=4); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013)).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Danafungia-scruposa.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=716609
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Coral_plato_(Danafungia_scruposa),_mar_Rojo,_Egipto,_2023-0
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.