Flabellum deludens
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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Kinshi coral lives without attaching itself to rocks or other surfaces.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Flabellum deludens
- Scientific name
- Flabellum deludens
- Japanese name
- キンシサンゴ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Hexacorallia
- Order
- Scleractinia
- Family
- Flabellidae
- Genus
- Flabellum
How the Flabellum deludens lives
It lives rolling about on a sandy, muddy seabed.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海Basic data
- Range
- The Pacific Ocean and elsewhere
Where the Flabellum deludens has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
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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 — キンシサンゴChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — キンシサンゴ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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