#5007 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
False Coral
Myriapora truncata
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in Europe, not in NL
📍 Mer Méditerranée, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, FR
📍 Epirus, Griechenland
📍 Sardegna
📍 Blaumar
📍 Espagne
📍 Medes Islands, Girona, Spain
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Donald Davesne · CC BY 4.0
- 5. Mer Méditerranée, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, FR:© Sylvie Omnès · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Epirus, Griechenland:© Falk Viczian Solarboot-Projekte gGmbH · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Sardegna:© Nils · CC BY 4.0
- 8. Blaumar:© Edu Alcaniz · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 9. Espagne:© Miroslava MATEJČEKOVÁ · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Medes Islands, Girona, Spain:© Vsevolod Rudyi · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Myriapora truncata , also known by its common name false coral is a species from the genus Myriapora . The species was originally described by Peter Simon Pallas in 1766.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 1,435 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1766 (260 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- False Coral
- scientific name
- Myriapora truncata
- class
- Gymnolaemata
- order
- Cheilostomatida
- family
- Myriaporidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1,119
- sightings worldwide
- 1,435
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1766 by Peter Simon Pallas
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 359113, Wikidata Q1114960, GBIF 1005328, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.