Plerogyra sinuosa (Dana, 1846)

Amjad, Farah, Ahusan, Mohamed, Amir, Hana, de Villiers, Nina M, Gress, Erika, Mah, Christopher L, Naeem, Shafiya, Rico-Seijo, Nuria, Samaai, Toufiek, Afzal, Maryiam S, Woodall, Lucy C & Stefanoudis, Paris V, 2024, An underwater imagery identification guide for shallow, mesophotic and deep-sea benthos in Maldives, Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. e 120128-e 120128 : e120128-

Plerogyra sinuosa (Dana, 1846)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Taxon: scientificName: Plerogyra sinuosa ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Anthozoa-Hexacorallia; order: Scleractinia ; family: Incerta saedis; genus: Plerogyra ; scientificNameAuthorship: (Dana, 1846); Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; country: Maldives; locality: Addu ; minimumDepthInMeters: 26; maximumDepthInMeters: 30; locationRemarks: Nekton Maldives Mission; Identification: identifiedBy: Farah Amjad, Paris Stefanoudis, Mariyam Shidha Afzal, Hana Amir; dateIdentified: 2022, 2023; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; Event: samplingProtocol: Submersible OR Remotely Operated Vehicle OR Snorkel; Record Level: basisOfRecord: Human observation

Notes

Colonies are flabello-meandroid with valleys thinly connected by a light blistery coenosteum. Has a bubbly appearance. Colony size ~ 17 cm in the longest dimension. Cream to bluish-grey in colour (Fig. 87 ).

Figures

Figure 87. Plerogyra sinuosa, Addu, 30 m.