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Trachyphyllia coral (no English common name)
Trachyphyllia constricta
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 1416513, checked 2026-10-31). Recorded in Maldives sources as Antillia constricta.
Possibly present in the Maldives
- English
- Trachyphyllia coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Trachyphyllia constricta
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)CITES Appendix II
- Record in the Maldives
- Possibly present
Description
A free-living or loosely attached coral with a large, fleshy, meandering polyp. It lives on soft bottoms. It is told apart from related species only by close examination of the skeleton.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: literature records via OBIS (IndOBIS). Only one kind of evidence was found, so it is listed as possibly present.
Sources
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1416513
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.