Striate boomerang coral
Herpolitha limax
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207363, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Striate boomerang coral
- Scientific
- Herpolitha limax
- 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 2022CITES Appendix II
Description
A tongue coral: a large, free-living mushroom coral with a long, tongue- or slipper-shaped skeleton, often 30 to 50 cm long, with a groove of mouths running along its length. It lies loose on reef slopes and in lagoons and is usually brown, green or cream. It is one of the easier mushroom corals to recognise.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=1); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=17); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Herpolitha-limax.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207363
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Herpolitha_limax.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.