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Cladopsammia coral (no English common name)
Cladopsammia gracilis
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 286958, checked 2026-10-31).
Possibly present in the Maldives
- English
- Cladopsammia coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Cladopsammia gracilis
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- recorded from 20 to 45 m
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)CITES Appendix II
- Record in the Maldives
- Possibly present
Description
A cup coral related to the sun corals, forming small clusters of tubular cups with bright yellow to orange polyps. It has no symbiotic algae and lives in caves, under overhangs and on shaded walls, where the polyps open to feed on plankton.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=14). Only one kind of evidence was found, so it is listed as possibly present.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Cladopsammia-gracilis.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=286958
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Coral_(Cladopsammia_gracilis),_islas_Ad_Dimaniyat,_Omán,_20
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.