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Button coral
Cynarina lacrymalis
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 287961, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Button coral
- Scientific
- Cynarina lacrymalis
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated, recorded from 0 to 50 m
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2022CITES Appendix II
Description
A button coral: a solitary coral with one large, round, fleshy polyp that looks swollen and almost glassy by day, in grey, green, brown or red. Under the soft tissue is a round, cup-shaped skeleton with large toothed ridges. It grows on deeper reef slopes and in sheltered, shaded places.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=2); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=7); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Cynarina-lacrymalis.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=287961
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Cynarina_lacrymalis_at_Bima_bay.JPG
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.