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Vase coral
Turbinaria mesenterina
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207511, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Vase coral
- Scientific
- Turbinaria mesenterina
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated, recorded from 0 to 40 m
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II
Description
A salad coral: a coral that forms thin, folded plates and scrolls, often in tiers like a lettuce, with small, raised cups on the upper surface. Colonies are usually yellow-brown, grey or green and grow in lagoons and on reef slopes, including in turbid water.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=13); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Turbinaria-mesenterina.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207511
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Turbinaria_mesenterina.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.