Hidden Cup Coral Phyllangia americana

Classification

Phyllangia [genus]
(2 species)

americana [species] (1)

Phyllangia americana subsp. americana [subspecies]

Phyllangia [genus]
(2 species)

americana [species] (1)

Phyllangia americana subsp. americana [subspecies]

Recorded on	Bonaire
	Curaçao
	Sint Maarten

Presence status	Indigenous (1) - Bonaire
	Indigenous (1) - Curaçao
	Indigenous (1) - Sint Maarten

Notes on presence status	Marine species are considered ubiquitous around the Dutch Caribbean by Macrae et al (2021), but this species has not been recorded yet on Aruba, Sint Maarten, Sint Eustatius and Saba.

Hoeksema, B.W., Meijer zu Schlochtern, M., Samimi-Namin, K. & McFadden, C.S. 2023. In the aftermath of Hurricane Irma: Colonization of a 4-year-old shipwreck by native and non-native corals, including a new cryptogenic species for the Caribbean. Marine Pollution Bulletin 188: 114649. [link]
MacRae, D.M. & De Meyer, K. 2020. Dutch Caribbean conservation species list. Using management effectiveness to strengthen species conservation in the Caribbean.
Roos, P.J. 1971. The shallow-water stony corals of the Netherlands Antilles. Studies on the fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 37: 1-108.