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Psammocora coral (no English common name)
Psammocora nierstraszi
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207261, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Psammocora coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Psammocora nierstraszi
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)CITES 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 (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.
Sources
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207261
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Psammocora_nierstraszi.JPG
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.