Maldives Marine Life

Marine life of Maldivian waters

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Monomyces coral (no English common name)
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Photo: Auckland Museum Collections from Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 (view on Wikimedia Commons)Preserved museum specimen. Coral photo: species not verifiable from image.

Monomyces coral (no English common name)

Monomyces rubrum

Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 287039, checked 2026-10-31).

Possibly present in the Maldives

English
Monomyces coral (no English common name)
Scientific
Monomyces rubrum
Dhivehi
No recorded Dhivehi name
Group
Hard corals
Family
Flabellidae (fan cup corals)
Depth and habitat
Reef-associated
IUCN status
NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)CITES Appendix II
Record in the Maldives
Possibly present

Description

A solitary cup coral that lives attached to hard surfaces in deeper water. In the Maldives it is known from specimens and literature records from deep water, below normal diving depth. 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), IndOBIS). Only one kind of evidence was found, so it is listed as possibly present.

Sources

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