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Porites coral (no English common name)
Porites lutea
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207246, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Porites coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Porites lutea
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated, recorded from 0 to 59 m
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II
Description
A massive Porites that forms large, rounded domes or flattened mounds with a smooth surface of tiny cups, usually cream, yellow, brown or greenish. Big colonies can grow to several metres across and are centuries old; on reef flats they often form flat-topped microatolls. It is one of the most important reef-builders in the Maldives. It is very hard to tell from Porites lobata underwater.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=4); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Porites-lutea.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207246
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Porites_lutea.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.