Sunset cup coral  (Leptopsammia pruvoti)

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Range

Recorded in the north-east Atlantic in the Channel Isles, Brittany and Portugal, it is also found in the Mediterranean. It was first recorded in Britain in 1969 from the island of Lundy, and is now known to occur in a few isolated sites in the south-west of England (3).

You can view distribution information for this species at the National Biodiversity Network Gateway.

Habitat

This species preferentially inhabits shaded areas of bedrock, for example in caves and gullies or under overhangs (3), and usually occurs below the depth of kelp forests (2).

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