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Serpentine cup coral
Eguchipsammia serpentina
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 286985, checked 2026-10-31).
Possibly present in the Maldives
- English
- Serpentine cup coral
- Scientific
- Eguchipsammia serpentina
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- recorded from 200 to 362 m
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)CITES Appendix II
- Record in the Maldives
- Possibly present
Description
A small cup coral that forms loose, branching colonies. It lacks symbiotic algae and lives in deeper water. 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/Eguchipsammia-serpentina.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=286985
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.