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Stylaster lace coral (no English common name)
Stylaster gemmascens
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 117965, checked 2026-10-31). WoRMS status: unreplaced junior homonym (still the name in use).
Possibly present in the Maldives
- English
- Stylaster lace coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Stylaster gemmascens
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Depth and habitat
- recorded from 40 to 1240 m
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)CITES Appendix II
- Record in the Maldives
- Possibly present
Description
A lace coral (a hydrocoral, not a true stony coral) that forms small, finely branched, fan-like colonies, often pink, purple or white, in caves and under overhangs. Like all lace corals it is listed on CITES Appendix II.
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
- sealifebase.se /summary/Stylaster-gemmascens.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117965
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.