Corrugated coral
Amazing fact
Corrugated coral sends out tiny white threads to catch and digest prey.
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Corrugated coral sends out tiny white threads to catch and digest prey.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Corrugated coral
- Scientific name
- Pavona varians
- Japanese name
- シワシコロサンゴ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Hexacorallia
- Order
- Scleractinia
- Family
- Agariciidae
- Genus
- Pavona
Its colonies spread thinly or form lumps, and their color varies from yellow to greenish yellow.
How the Corrugated coral lives
It is found in shallow lagoons and on coral reef and rocky slopes. Some colonies grow over coral rubble on the seabed without attaching to bedrock.
国立環境研究所Where the Corrugated 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
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 — シワシコロサンゴChecked: 2026-11-04
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — Coral LandscapeChecked: 2026-11-07
- 国立環境研究所 — Pavona varians (Verrill, 1864) シワシコロサンゴ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.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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