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Plesiastrea coral (no English common name)
Plesiastrea peroni
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207493, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Plesiastrea coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Plesiastrea peroni
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)CITES Appendix II
Description
A massive or encrusting coral with small, round, close-set cups. Colonies are usually brown, cream or greenish and grow on reef slopes and in lagoons. Following a recent revision of the genus, Indian Ocean colonies previously called Plesiastrea versipora are placed in this species.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=8); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=8).
Sources
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207493
- inaturalist.org /observations/236040885
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.