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Pleuractis mushroom coral (no English common name)
Pleuractis moluccensis
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 716545, checked 2026-10-31).
Possibly present in the Maldives
- English
- Pleuractis mushroom coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Pleuractis moluccensis
- 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 2022CITES Appendix II
- Record in the Maldives
- Possibly present
Description
A free-living, oval mushroom coral. It is told apart from related species only by close examination of the skeleton.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013)). Only one kind of evidence was found, so it is listed as possibly present.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Pleuractis-moluccensis.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=716545
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Pleuractis_moluccensis,_Koh_Phangan.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.