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Deltocyathus coral (no English common name)
Deltocyathus rotulus
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 286804, checked 2026-10-31).
Possibly present in the Maldives
- English
- Deltocyathus coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Deltocyathus rotulus
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)CITES Appendix II
- Record in the Maldives
- Possibly present
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: SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist. Only one kind of evidence was found, so it is listed as possibly present.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Deltocyathus-rotulus.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=286804
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.