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Porites coral (no English common name)
Porites somaliensis
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207244, checked 2026-10-31).
Possibly present in the Maldives
- English
- Porites coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Porites somaliensis
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated, recorded from 0 to 20 m
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II
- Record in the Maldives
- Possibly present
Description
A Porites coral: an important reef-builder with tiny, crowded cups and a smooth to finely porous surface. Colonies may be massive boulders, branching fingers, plates or columns. Massive colonies grow slowly and can live for centuries. It is told apart from related species only by close examination of the skeleton.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=1). Only one kind of evidence was found, so it is listed as possibly present.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Porites-somaliensis.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207244
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.