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Least valley coral
Leptoria phrygia
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207477, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Least valley coral
- Scientific
- Leptoria phrygia
- 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
Description
A brain coral with long, narrow, winding valleys separated by thin, even ridges, all of similar width, which gives it a neat, maze-like pattern. Colonies are rounded or flattened and usually brown, cream or green. It grows on reef flats and exposed upper slopes.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=6); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=18); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Leptoria-phrygia.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207477
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Coral_(Leptoria_phrygia),_mar_Rojo,_Egipto,_2023-04-17,_DD_
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.