Maldives Marine Life

Marine life of Maldivian waters

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Leptoseris coral (no English common name)
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Leptoseris coral (no English common name)

Leptoseris papyracea

Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207278, checked 2026-10-31).

English
Leptoseris coral (no English common name)
Scientific
Leptoseris papyracea
Dhivehi
No recorded Dhivehi name
Group
Hard corals
Family
Agariciidae (lettuce and cactus corals)
Depth and habitat
Reef-associated, recorded from 15 to 368 m
IUCN status
LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II

Description

A thin, fragile, leafy Leptoseris that grows in shaded, deeper water. It is told apart from related species only by close examination of the skeleton.

In the Maldives

Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=2); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.

Sources

Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.