Maldives Marine Life

Marine life of Maldivian waters

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Bracket coral
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Photo: portioid / iNaturalist, CC BY 4.0 (view on iNaturalist)iNaturalist research-grade observation. Coral photo: species not verifiable from image.

Bracket coral

Podabacia crustacea

Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207364, checked 2026-10-31).

English
Bracket coral
Scientific
Podabacia crustacea
Dhivehi
No recorded Dhivehi name
Group
Hard corals
Family
Fungiidae (mushroom corals)
Depth and habitat
Reef-associated, recorded from 0 to 368 m
IUCN status
LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2022CITES Appendix II

Description

An attached, plate-like mushroom coral with cups scattered over its surface. It is told apart from related species only by close examination of the skeleton.

In the Maldives

Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=2); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS).

Sources

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