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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
Bracket coral can grow in stacked tiers.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Bracket Coral
- Scientific name
- Podabacia crustacea
- Japanese name
- ヤエヤマカワラサンゴ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Hexacorallia
- Order
- Scleractinia
- Family
- Fungiidae
- Genus
- Podabacia
How the Bracket Coral lives
Its colonies live attached to the seabed.
Corals of the WorldBasic data
- Range
- Amami, Okinawa and southward, and Indo-West Pacific
Where the Bracket 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
- ヤエヤマカワラサンゴ
- 简体中文
- 壳形足柄珊瑚
- 繁體中文
- 殼形足柄珊瑚
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 — ヤエヤマカワラサンゴChecked: 2026-11-04
- Corals of the World — Podabacia crustaceaChecked: 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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