Montipora coral
Amazing fact
Montipora confusa usually has pale edges on the plate-like parts of its colony.
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Montipora confusa usually has pale edges on the plate-like parts of its colony.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Montipora coral
- Scientific name
- Montipora confusa
- Japanese name
- ミダレアミメコモンサンゴ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Hexacorallia
- Order
- Scleractinia
- Family
- Acroporidae
- Genus
- Montipora
It lives around Tanegashima and in the seas from the Indian Ocean to the western Pacific.
The colony is pale brown and sends up short, irregular, fairly large knobs from a thin, crust-like base.
The surface of the colony is covered with raised, net-like ridges like the veins of a leaf.
How the Montipora coral lives
It lives in shallow reef habitats, especially lagoons enclosed by reefs.
Corals of the WorldBasic data
- Range
- Tanegashima and the Indo-West Pacific
Where the Montipora 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
- ミダレアミメコモンサンゴ
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 — ミダレアミメコモンサンゴChecked: 2026-11-04
- Corals of the World — Montipora confusaChecked: 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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