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Dipsastraea coral (no English common name)
Dipsastraea laxa
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 758235, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Dipsastraea coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Dipsastraea laxa
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated, recorded from 6 to 25 m
- IUCN status
- EN · EndangeredEndangered (EN), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II
Description
A massive, rounded coral with round to oval cups, each with its own wall, separated by shallow grooves. It was formerly placed in Favia. Colonies are often brown, green or cream, with contrasting cup centres. 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).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Dipsastraea-laxa.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=758235
- inaturalist.org /observations/137518475
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.