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title: "Tongue Coral"
description: "Herpolitha limax — Weitere Tiere. Herpolitha is a monotypic genus of mushroom corals in the family Fungiidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/de/animal/tongue-coral
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Tongue Coral

> Herpolitha limax — Weitere Tiere. Herpolitha is a monotypic genus of mushroom corals in the family Fungiidae.

- Scientific name: *Herpolitha limax*
- Category: `other` (Weitere Tiere)
- Habitats: `sea` (Meer & Küste)
- iNaturalist observations: 970
- Wikidata: [Q3944266](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3944266)
- iNaturalist taxon: [102656](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/102656)

## Names

- en: Tongue Coral
- fr: Corail-boomerang

## Countries with the most observations

ID (95), PF (85), AU (56), FJ (55), TH (52), PH (35), GU (32), SG (30), SC (29), MY (23), KE (19), EG (18)

## Summary

Herpolitha is a monotypic genus of mushroom corals in the family Fungiidae. The only member of the genus is Herpolitha limax, commonly known as the tongue, slipper,  mole or striate boomerang coral. It is a free-living species and is native to reefs and lagoons in the Indo-Pacific region. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed this coral as being of "least concern".

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpolitha

## Photo

![Tongue Coral](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/tongue-coral/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jean-Paul Boerekamps · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/100665649

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/tongue-coral?lang=de` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).