Sunset Cup Coral

Leptopsammia pruvoti

• Group: Coral

This bright yellow cup coral favours the dark, growing in caves, under overhangs, and on shaded rock faces mostly below 10 metres and down into the deep. Each polyp builds a tiny calcareous cup under a centimetre tall and catches drifting prey with its tentacles.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Cnidaria › Hexacorallia › Scleractinia › Dendrophylliidae › Leptopsammia

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 135193.