Maldives Marine Life

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Elongate mushroom coral
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Elongate mushroom coral

Pleuractis paumotensis

Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 716547, checked 2026-10-31).

English
Elongate mushroom coral
Scientific
Pleuractis paumotensis
Dhivehi
No recorded Dhivehi name
Group
Hard corals
Family
Fungiidae (mushroom corals)
Depth and habitat
Reef-associated, recorded from 0 to 40 m
IUCN status
EN · EndangeredEndangered (EN), assessed 2022CITES Appendix II

Description

A long, oval mushroom coral with a single central groove. 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)); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.

Sources

Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.