Lobophyllia radians
Amazing fact
Dainou coral has winding grooves on its surface that look like the folds of a brain.
台中海洋館
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Dainou coral has winding grooves on its surface that look like the folds of a brain.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Lobophyllia radians
- Scientific name
- Lobophyllia radians
- Japanese name
- ダイノウサンゴ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Hexacorallia
- Order
- Scleractinia
- Family
- Lobophylliidae
- Genus
- Lobophyllia
How the Lobophyllia radians lives
At night, it extends tentacles with white tips. It eats drifting animals and small particles of organic matter. By day, it usually retracts its tentacles, leaving its thick, fleshy tissue visible. Algae living inside its body use light for photosynthesis.
台中海洋館Basic data
- Range
- Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean
Where the Lobophyllia radians 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
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 — ダイノウサンゴChecked: 2026-11-04
- 台中海洋館 — 輻紋瓣葉珊瑚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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