Cavernulina orientalis
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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
The Minami-umisaboten sea pen is a coral without a limestone skeleton.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Cavernulina orientalis
- Scientific name
- Cavernulina orientalis
- Japanese name
- ミナミウミサボテン
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Octocorallia
- Order
- Scleralcyonacea
- Family
- Veretillidae
- Genus
- Cavernulina
It lives in seas south of Amami and Okinawa and across the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific.
Algae called zooxanthellae live inside its body, and it grows using the nutrients they make by photosynthesis.
How the Cavernulina orientalis lives
At night, it shrinks and buries itself completely in the sand.
いおワールドかごしま水族館Basic data
- Range
- Amami, south of Okinawa, and the Indo-West Pacific
Where the Cavernulina orientalis 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
- ミナミウミサボテン
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 — ミナミウミサボテンChecked: 2026-11-04
- いおワールドかごしま水族館 — ミナミウミサボテン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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