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Psammocora coral (no English common name)
Psammocora contigua
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207267, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Psammocora coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Psammocora contigua
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)CITES Appendix II
Description
A branching or encrusting Psammocora with short, thick, flattened branches and a fine, sandpaper-like surface. Colonies are usually brown, grey or greenish and grow in lagoons and on shallow slopes.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=14, QM); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=6); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.
Sources
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207267
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Psammocora_contigua,_in_situ.JPG
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.