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Black cup coral
Tubastraea diaphana
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 291252, checked 2026-10-31).
Possibly present in the Maldives
- English
- Black cup coral
- Scientific
- Tubastraea diaphana
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated, recorded from 8 to 54 m
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)CITES Appendix II
- Record in the Maldives
- Possibly present
Description
A sun coral with dark green to black tubular cups, on shaded walls. It is told apart from related species only by close examination of the skeleton.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=2). Only one kind of evidence was found, so it is listed as possibly present.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Tubastraea-diaphana.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=291252
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.