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Elegance coral
Catalaphyllia jardinei
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207618, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Elegance coral
- Scientific
- Catalaphyllia jardinei
- 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
The elegance coral, with long, swollen, often pink-tipped tentacles. It lives on soft bottoms in sheltered water. It is told apart from related species only by close examination of the skeleton.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=4); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Catalaphyllia-jardinei.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207618
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Catalaphyllia_short.JPG
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.