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Fungiacyathus coral (no English common name)
Fungiacyathus symmetricus
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 287088, checked 2026-10-31).
Possibly present in the Maldives
- English
- Fungiacyathus coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Fungiacyathus symmetricus
- 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, solitary, disc-shaped deep-sea cup coral. 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)). Only one kind of evidence was found, so it is listed as possibly present.
Sources
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=287088
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.