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Psammocora coral (no English common name)
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Psammocora coral (no English common name)

Psammocora exesa

Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 766865, checked 2026-10-31).

English
Psammocora coral (no English common name)
Scientific
Psammocora exesa
Dhivehi
No recorded Dhivehi name
Group
Hard corals
Family
Psammocoridae (sandpaper corals)
Depth and habitat
Reef-associated, recorded from 2 to 48 m
IUCN status
LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II

Description

A coral with tiny cups set in a surface that looks like fine sandpaper. Colonies are encrusting, massive or short-branched. It is told apart from related species only by close examination of the skeleton.

In the Maldives

Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=4); literature records via OBIS (IndOBIS); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.

Sources

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