Alveopora coral
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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Alveopora japonica often grows into a ball-shaped colony.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Alveopora coral
- Scientific name
- Alveopora japonica
- Japanese name
- アワサンゴ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Hexacorallia
- Order
- Scleractinia
- Family
- Acroporidae
- Genus
- Alveopora
How the Alveopora coral lives
It lives in shallow rocky seas and murky shallows within bays. Within bays, it sometimes forms extensive aggregations.
国立環境研究所Basic data
- Range
- Temperate regions of Honshu
- Conservation status in Japan
- Near Threatened (NT)Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Marine Red List (2017)
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — アワサンゴChecked: 2026-11-04
- 国立環境研究所 — ニホンアワサンゴChecked: 2026-11-07
- Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Marine Red List (2017)Checked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
The conservation status in Japan is the category in the Red Lists of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, which assess the risk of extinction for wild animals in Japan.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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