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Platygyra coral (no English common name)
Platygyra lamellina
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207487, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Platygyra coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Platygyra lamellina
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated, recorded from 0 to 47 m
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II
Description
A brain coral with long, winding valleys and thick walls, forming rounded or flattened colonies. Colonies are usually brown, green or grey. It grows on reef slopes and in lagoons. It needs close examination to tell from Platygyra daedalea.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=2, USNM); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=1); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Platygyra-lamellina.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207487
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Platygyra_lamellina_(Hard_brain_coral).jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.