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Blue chalice
Echinopora lamellosa
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207421, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Blue chalice
- Scientific
- Echinopora lamellosa
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated, recorded from 3 to 35 m
- IUCN status
- VU · VulnerableVulnerable (VU), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II
Description
A plate coral that forms thin, wide, overlapping sheets or whorls, often in tiers, with small raised cups scattered over the upper surface. Colonies are usually brown, grey-green or cream and can cover large areas of reef slope. It is one of the commoner plate corals in the Maldives.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=10, USNM); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=18); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Echinopora-lamellosa.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207421
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Echinopora_lamellosa,_Arabia_Saudí.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.