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Goniastrea coral (no English common name)
Goniastrea pectinata
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207464, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Goniastrea coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Goniastrea pectinata
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated, recorded from 3 to 15 m
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II
Description
A massive coral with cups that share walls, arranged in a honeycomb or short-valley pattern, with small pointed lobes inside the cups. Colonies are usually brown, cream or green and grow on reef flats and upper slopes, often in shallow, sunny water. It tolerates heat and exposure better than many corals.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=6); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=3); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Goniastrea-pectinata.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207464
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Coral_(Goniastrea_pectinata),_mar_Rojo,_Egipto,_2023-04-14,
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.