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Culicia coral (no English common name)
Culicia stellata
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 288363, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Culicia coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Culicia stellata
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated, recorded from 20 to 100 m
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)CITES Appendix II
Description
A small colonial cup coral whose cups are connected by thin creeping stolons. It grows in shaded crevices and lacks symbiotic algae. 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); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Culicia-stellata.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=288363
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.