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Slender lettuce coral
Leptoseris mycetoseroides
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207283, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Slender lettuce coral
- Scientific
- Leptoseris mycetoseroides
- 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 2023CITES Appendix II
Description
A thin, encrusting to plate-like coral with ridges and small cups on its upper surface. Colonies are brown, cream or greenish and grow on reef slopes and walls. It needs close examination to tell from other Leptoseris.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=1); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013)); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Leptoseris-mycetoseroides.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207283
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Coral_(Leptoseris_mycetoseroides),_Nosy_Antanimora,_Madagas
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.