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Lichen coral
Porites lichen
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207228, checked 2026-10-31).
Possibly present in the Maldives
- English
- Lichen coral
- Scientific
- Porites lichen
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated, recorded from 0 to 75 m
- IUCN status
- VU · VulnerableVulnerable (VU), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II
- Record in the Maldives
- Possibly present
Description
A Porites that forms encrusting sheets with short, irregular ridges and knobs, often yellow-green. 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), IndOBIS). Only one kind of evidence was found, so it is listed as possibly present.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Porites-lichen.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207228
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Porites_lichen,_Reunión.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.