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Antipathes black coral (no English common name)
Antipathes chota
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 283887, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Antipathes black coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Antipathes chota
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Black corals
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)CITES Appendix II
Description
A black coral: a colony with a dark, horny, flexible skeleton covered in a thin living tissue that is usually white, grey, yellow or brownish, so the colony itself rarely looks black. Colonies branch like small bushes or fans and grow mostly on steep walls and in deeper water. 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 (IndOBIS); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Antipathes-chota.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=283887
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.