Long tentacle plate coral
Amazing fact
The long tentacle plate coral has tentacles with rounded, swollen tips.
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The long tentacle plate coral has tentacles with rounded, swollen tips.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Long tentacle plate coral
- Scientific name
- Heliofungia actiniformis
- Japanese name
- パラオクサビライシ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Hexacorallia
- Order
- Scleractinia
- Family
- Fungiidae
- Genus
- Heliofungia
It is shaped like a disk or a little mountain, and it stretches out thick tentacles.
How the Long tentacle plate coral lives
It lives in sheltered areas behind reefs and in lagoons. It reproduces by releasing eggs and sperm into the water. It can also brood its larvae.
Australian MuseumBasic data
- Range
- The Yaeyama Islands and southward
- Conservation status in Japan
- Near Threatened (NT)Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Marine Red List (2017)
Where the Long tentacle plate 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
- パラオクサビライシ
- 简体中文
- 辐石芝珊瑚
- 繁體中文
- 輻形太陽蕈珊瑚
- Français
- Corail-anémone
- Deutsch
- Anemonen-Pilzkoralle
- Italiano
- Corallo anemone
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 — パラオクサビライシChecked: 2026-11-04
- Australian Museum — Heliofungia actiniformisChecked: 2026-11-07
- Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Marine Red List (2017)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.
The conservation status in Japan is the category in the Red Lists of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, which assess the risk of extinction for wild animals in Japan.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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