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Pretty cave coral
Tubastraea aurea
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 367759, checked 2026-10-31).
Possibly present in the Maldives
- English
- Pretty cave coral
- Scientific
- Tubastraea aurea
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated, recorded from 3 to 19 m
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)CITES Appendix II
- Record in the Maldives
- Possibly present
Description
A sun coral with yellow polyps on tubular cups, in caves and under overhangs. It is told apart from related species only by close examination of the skeleton.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=8). Only one kind of evidence was found, so it is listed as possibly present.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Tubastraea-aurea.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=367759
- inaturalist.org /observations/266345840
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.