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Deltocyathus coral (no English common name)
Deltocyathus andamanicus
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 286790, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Deltocyathus coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Deltocyathus andamanicus
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)CITES Appendix II
Description
A small, free-living, saucer-shaped deep-sea cup coral that lives on soft sediment. In the Maldives it is known from specimens and literature records from deep water, below normal diving depth. 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)); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Deltocyathus-andamanicus.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=286790
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.