Maldives Marine Life

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Paramontastraea coral (no English common name)
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Photo: seastung / iNaturalist, CC BY-SA 4.0 (view on iNaturalist)iNaturalist research-grade observation. Coral photo: species not verifiable from image.

Paramontastraea coral (no English common name)

Paramontastraea peresi

Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 762398, checked 2026-10-31).

English
Paramontastraea coral (no English common name)
Scientific
Paramontastraea peresi
Dhivehi
No recorded Dhivehi name
Group
Hard corals
Family
Merulinidae (brain, honeycomb and horn 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 massive coral with round, separate, slightly raised cups. Colonies are usually brown, cream or green and grow on reef slopes. It needs close examination to tell from similar massive corals.

In the Maldives

Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=2); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=1); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013)).

Sources

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