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Pearl bubble coral
Physogyra lichtensteini
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207497, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Pearl bubble coral
- Scientific
- Physogyra lichtensteini
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard 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 pearl bubble coral: by day it is covered in small, grape-like, inflated vesicles that hide the skeleton. At night the vesicles shrink and tentacles come out to feed. Colonies are usually cream, grey or greenish and grow in shaded places on reef slopes and walls.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=19); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Physogyra-lichtensteini.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207497
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Anémone_non_identifiée_Maldives.JPG
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.