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Stephanocyathus coral (no English common name)
Stephanocyathus nobilis
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 135172, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Stephanocyathus coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Stephanocyathus nobilis
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)CITES Appendix II
Description
A solitary, cup- or bowl-shaped coral of deep water, which lives free on soft sediment. 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=4); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013)); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.
Sources
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135172
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.