Scleractinia taxon details
Montipora maldivensis Pillai & Scheer, 1976
759931 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:759931)
accepted
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Pillai CSG, Scheer G (1976) Report on the stony corals from the Maldive Archipelago. Results of the Xarifa Expedition 1957/58. Zoologica, Stuttgart 43 (126): 1-83, pls. 1-32. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Montipora maldivensis Pillai & Scheer, 1976. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=759931 on 2026-08-22
original description
Pillai CSG, Scheer G (1976) Report on the stony corals from the Maldive Archipelago. Results of the Xarifa Expedition 1957/58. Zoologica, Stuttgart 43 (126): 1-83, pls. 1-32. [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Pichon, M.; Benzoni, F. (2007). Taxonomic re-appraisal of zooxanthellate Scleractinian Corals in the Maldive Archipelago. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1441: 21–33., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1441.1.2 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Pichon, M.; Benzoni, F. (2007). Taxonomic re-appraisal of zooxanthellate Scleractinian Corals in the Maldive Archipelago. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1441: 21–33., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1441.1.2 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Biology zooxanthellate [details]
