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Wire coral
Cirrhipathes anguina
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 220496, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Wire coral
- Scientific
- Cirrhipathes anguina
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Black corals
- Depth and habitat
- recorded from 5 to 82 m
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)CITES Appendix II
Description
A wire coral: a single, long, unbranched black coral strand, often coiled into loose spirals, that sticks out from walls and overhangs. The living tissue is usually yellow, green or brown and covered in small polyps. Tiny wire-coral gobies and shrimps live on these strands. Like all black corals it is listed on CITES Appendix II.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=1); literature records via OBIS (IndOBIS); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Cirrhipathes-anguina.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220496
- inaturalist.org /observations/334317097
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.