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Paracyathus coral (no English common name)
Paracyathus lifuensis
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 286822, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Paracyathus coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Paracyathus lifuensis
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)CITES Appendix II
Description
A small solitary cup coral that lives attached to hard substrate. It lacks symbiotic algae and is mostly found 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: literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Paracyathus-lifuensis.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=286822
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.