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Striate finger coral
Madracis myriaster
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 287111, checked 2026-10-31).
Possibly present in the Maldives
- English
- Striate finger coral
- Scientific
- Madracis myriaster
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated, recorded from 20 to 1220 m
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)CITES Appendix II
- Record in the Maldives
- Possibly present
Description
A small, branching or encrusting coral with tiny cups. It often lives in shaded or deeper water. It is told apart from related species only by close examination of the skeleton.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013)). Only one kind of evidence was found, so it is listed as possibly present.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Madracis-myriaster.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=287111
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.