Maldives Marine Life

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Lettuce coral
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Lettuce coral

Pectinia lactuca

Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207378, checked 2026-10-31).

English
Lettuce coral
Scientific
Pectinia lactuca
Dhivehi
No recorded Dhivehi name
Group
Hard corals
Family
Merulinidae (brain, honeycomb and horn corals)
Depth and habitat
Reef-associated, recorded from 1 to 15 m
IUCN status
EN · EndangeredEndangered (EN), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II

Description

A Pectinia with tall, lettuce-like walls. It is told apart from related species only by close examination of the skeleton.

In the Maldives

Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=1); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS).

Sources

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