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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
The galaxy coral has white or yellow tentacle tips.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Galaxy coral
- Scientific name
- Galaxea fascicularis
- Japanese name
- アザミサンゴ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Hexacorallia
- Order
- Scleractinia
- Family
- Euphylliidae
- Genus
- Galaxea
It carries a strong stinging venom, and at night it stretches out long tentacles called sweeper tentacles.
Basic data
- Range
- Kushimoto, Wakayama, and southward
Where the Galaxy coral has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
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
- 日本語
- アザミサンゴ
- 简体中文
- 丛生盔形珊瑚
- 繁體中文
- 叢生棘杯珊瑚
- Français
- Corail piquant
- Italiano
- Corallo erboso fluorescente
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 — アザミサンゴChecked: 2026-11-04
- 男鹿水族館GAO — アザミサンゴ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.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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