Honeycomb coral
Gardineroseris planulata
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207274, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Honeycomb coral
- Scientific
- Gardineroseris planulata
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated, recorded from 0 to 40 m
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II
Description
A massive or encrusting coral with cups set in angular, sharply walled depressions, so the surface looks like a pattern of small pits. Colonies are usually brown, yellowish or greenish and grow on reef slopes. It is named after the zoologist J. Stanley Gardiner, who studied Maldivian reefs in 1899 to 1900.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=5, USNM); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=5); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Gardineroseris-planulata.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207274
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Gardineroseris_planulata_1.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.