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Flabellum coral (no English common name)
Flabellum pavoninum
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 287022, checked 2026-10-31).
Possibly present in the Maldives
- English
- Flabellum coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Flabellum pavoninum
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)CITES Appendix II
- Record in the Maldives
- Possibly present
Description
A solitary, fan- or wedge-shaped cup coral that lives on soft bottoms in deep water. 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
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=287022
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.