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Flabellum coral (no English common name)
Flabellum japonicum
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 287011, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Flabellum coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Flabellum japonicum
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)CITES Appendix II
Description
A solitary, fan- or wedge-shaped cup coral that lives on soft bottoms in deep 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: literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013)); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.
Sources
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=287011
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.