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Rounded bubblegum coral
Plerogyra sinuosa
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207498, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Rounded bubblegum coral
- Scientific
- Plerogyra sinuosa
- 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 bubble coral: by day it is covered in large, smooth, inflated vesicles like soft balloons, usually cream, grey or pale green, that hide the blade-like walls of its skeleton. At night the vesicles shrink and the tentacles come out to feed. It grows in shaded places on reef slopes, walls and in caves.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=9); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Plerogyra-sinuosa.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207498
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:BubbleCoral.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.