Encrusting pore coral
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Encrusting pore coral has a surface covered with knob-like bumps.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Encrusting pore coral
- Scientific name
- Montipora aequituberculata
- Japanese name
- チヂミウスコモンサンゴ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Hexacorallia
- Order
- Scleractinia
- Family
- Acroporidae
- Genus
- Montipora
It spreads out wide in thin, leaf-like plates, and when large, several of them stack up.
How the Encrusting pore coral lives
It lives attached in place as a colony. It usually grows on coral reef slopes.
沖縄美ら海水族館海洋委員會海洋保育署Basic data
- Range
- Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean
Where the Encrusting pore 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
- チヂミウスコモンサンゴ
- 简体中文
- 瘿叶表孔珊瑚
- 繁體中文
- 癭葉表孔珊瑚
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 — チヂミウスコモンサンゴChecked: 2026-11-04
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — チヂミウスコモンサンゴChecked: 2026-11-07
- 海洋委員會海洋保育署 — 癭葉表孔珊瑚｜臺灣百種海洋生物-珊瑚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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