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Truncatoflabellum coral (no English common name)
Truncatoflabellum compressum
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 1445491, checked 2026-10-31).
Possibly present in the Maldives
- English
- Truncatoflabellum coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Truncatoflabellum compressum
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- Sea floor (benthic)
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)CITES Appendix II
- Record in the Maldives
- Possibly present
Description
A solitary, wedge-shaped cup coral of soft bottoms. It can reproduce by splitting off its upper part. In the Maldives it is known from specimens and literature records from deep water, below normal diving depth. 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 (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013)). Only one kind of evidence was found, so it is listed as possibly present.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Truncatoflabellum-compressum.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1445491
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.