Caryophyllia smithii Stokes & Broderip, 1828
Devonshire cup coral
Caryophyllia smithii
photo by Scott, Sue

Family:  Caryophylliidae (cup corals)
Max. size: 
Environment:  reef-associated; marine
Distribution:  Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean and Indo-West Pacific.
Diagnosis:  The stony corals non colonial, whose skeleton limestone reaches 0.35 cm vertically, of oval section, at base little, even hardly narrowed. The tentacles comprise at their end a small spherical bludgeon. Polyps: brownish coupler, brownish or pink, the generally ringed oral disc of a brown ring, drawing towards the red (Ref. 358).
Biology: 
IUCN Red List Status: Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. 123251)
Threat to humans: 
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