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Goniopora coral (no English common name)
Goniopora pedunculata
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 759975, checked 2026-10-31).
Possibly present in the Maldives
- English
- Goniopora coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Goniopora pedunculata
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated, recorded from 15 to 25 m
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II
- Record in the Maldives
- Possibly present
Description
A coral with long, flower-like polyps, each with 24 tentacles, that are usually extended by day and hide the skeleton. Colonies are often rounded or columnar. 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), IndOBIS). Only one kind of evidence was found, so it is listed as possibly present.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Goniopora-pedunculata.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=759975
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.