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Flat lettuce coral
Echinophyllia aspera
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207370, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Flat lettuce coral
- Scientific
- Echinophyllia aspera
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated, recorded from 1 to 60 m
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2022CITES Appendix II
Description
A thin, plate-like or encrusting coral with scattered, spiny cups on its upper surface. It often forms overlapping plates on reef slopes. Colonies are usually mottled green, brown, red or grey. Identifying it needs a close look, as several plate-forming corals look similar.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=4, QM); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=1); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Echinophyllia-aspera.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207370
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Coral_(Echinophyllia_aspera),_mar_Rojo,_Egipto,_2023-04-18,
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.