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Paracyathus coral (no English common name)
Paracyathus stokesii
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 286831, checked 2026-10-31).
Possibly present in the Maldives
- English
- Paracyathus coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Paracyathus stokesii
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- recorded from 38 to 38 m
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)CITES Appendix II
- Record in the Maldives
- Possibly present
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: museum specimens (n=1). Only one kind of evidence was found, so it is listed as possibly present.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Paracyathus-stokesii.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=286831
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.