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Dipsastraea coral (no English common name)
Dipsastraea pallida
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 758233, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Dipsastraea coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Dipsastraea pallida
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated, recorded from 6 to 30 m
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II
Description
A massive Dipsastraea with round, well-spaced cups, often pale with darker 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=25); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Dipsastraea-pallida.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=758233
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Dipsastraea_pallida.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.