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Abyssopathes black coral (no English common name)
Abyssopathes lyra
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 289303, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Abyssopathes black coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Abyssopathes lyra
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Black corals
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)CITES Appendix II
Description
A deep-sea black coral that grows as a sparse, feather-like colony on the sea floor far below diving depth. Its slender branchlets carry tiny polyps along one side. 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: museum specimens (n=1, ZMUC); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013)).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Abyssopathes-lyra.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=289303
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.