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Daisy coral
Goniopora stokesi
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207219, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Daisy coral
- Scientific
- Goniopora stokesi
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated, recorded from 2 to 26 m
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II
Description
A Goniopora that often lives free on sand, with very long polyps. It is told apart from related species only by close examination of the skeleton.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=1); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Goniopora-stokesi.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207219
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Coral_(Goniopora_stokesi),_Mahé,_Seychelles,_2025-09-08,_DD
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.