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Enallopsammia coral (no English common name)
Enallopsammia rostrata
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 135190, checked 2026-10-31).
Possibly present in the Maldives
- English
- Enallopsammia coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Enallopsammia rostrata
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- recorded from 202 to 2165 m
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II
- Record in the Maldives
- Possibly present
Description
A branching cup coral of deep water. It lacks symbiotic algae and forms tree-like colonies. In the Maldives it is known from specimens and literature records from deep water, below normal diving depth. It is told apart from related species only by close examination of the skeleton.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013)). Only one kind of evidence was found, so it is listed as possibly present.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Enallopsammia-rostrata.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135190
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Expn7396_(39695069842).jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.