#5058 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co

Symmetrical Brain Coral

Pseudodiploria strigosa

CRcritically endangered 🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 outside Europe

8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble · CC BY 4.0
2. © Pauline Walsh Jacobson · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble · CC BY 4.0
4. © Alex Doyle · CC BY 4.0
5. © Morgan Cantrell · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Gabypecas · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Sarka Martinez · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Jay Brasher · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

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base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,498iNaturalist observations
threat CRcritically endangered

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.
3,498 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by James Dwight Dana in 1846 (180 years ago).
Listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List.

fact sheet

English: Symmetrical Brain Coral
scientific name: Pseudodiploria strigosa
class: Anthozoa
order: Scleractinia
family: Faviidae
IUCN Red List: CR · critically endangered
sightings in NL: 0
sightings worldwide: 3,498
GBIF records in NL: 0
weight: —
length: —
lifespan: —
named: 1846 by James Dwight Dana

IUCN in Dutch: ernstig bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 504639, Wikidata Q14191622, GBIF 7454555, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.