Tobishima Coral Colony
飛島サンゴ類群棲地 · Tobishimasangoruigunseichi
Photo: Σ64 / CC BY 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons
- Designated by
- Prefectural / Natural Monument
- Designation type
- Habitat / breeding site
- Designated on
- November 24, 1956
- Location
- 山形県酒田市
- Prefectures
- Yamagata
- Scientific name
- Rhizopsammia minuta mutsuensis, Dendrophyllia cribrosa
About the Mutsu Coral
A small non-reef-building stony coral found along Japanese coasts, including around Tobishima in Yamagata. Its yellow polyps are connected by stolons and form colonies, and it tolerates low water temperatures. Its Tobishima habitat is designated a prefectural Natural Monument as the Tobishima Coral Community Site, together with other corals.
Natural Monuments related to the Mutsu Coral →About the Onomichi Yellow Coral
This is a non-reef-building coral also found around Tobishima Island in Yamagata Prefecture. It has orange, branching colonies attached to rock and does not host symbiotic algae. Tobishima is known as its northern distribution limit, and the site is protected as a prefectural Natural Monument together with other corals.
Natural Monuments related to the Onomichi Yellow Coral →Map
Approximate location of the designated site (municipality centre).
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The designated site is in 山形県酒田市.
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