Soft orange coral with rounded lobes, a bumpy surface, and small pointy growths.

Lobed leather coral

Lobophytum sp.
Where at Shedd?
Wonder of Water
Diet Very small animals and plant-like organisms called zooplankton and phytoplankton and nourishment from photosynthesis with symbiotic zooxanthellae
Size Size: Up to 3 feet (1 meter) in diameter
Type Corals & Anemones
Range Shallow waters in the Indian and West-Central Pacific Oceans
Habitat Tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans

Did you know?

  1. They feed on tiny marine animals (zooplankton) and they also receive nutrients from a type of symbiotic algae within their tissues called zooxanthellae.