When you think if animals you probably picture bears, giraffes, and other huge mammals that you love to watch at the zoo. But you don’t realize all the other smaller animals that are really amazing like the one I’m going to talk about. My animal is the clathraria rubrinodis. Members of the genus clathraria are aborescent, dependent corals developing fans or bushes. The axis or central skeletal “trunk” is jointed, there being nodes, bendable spiked interconnections, split up by internodes consisting of hard, calcareous material. They are found in the tropical regions of the Indo-Pacific. I’m writing this essay to persuade everyone to learn more about all the different and unusual animals out there.

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First of all, I’m going to describe the clathraria rubrinodis. It is only about ten millimeters tall which is about the size of casual Go-phone. The coloration of the organism is a red-orange mixed with a touch of gray. They survive by using their nodes spiked bendable joints. Some characteristics that it has are it’s nodes and bendable joints. So now you know that even though the clathraria rubrinodis does not have sharp teeth or claws it is still very well protected.

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Next, I am going to talk about the clathraria rubrinois’s habitat, population, and conservation. It is found in the tropical regions of the Indo-Pacific. The population is unknown but is probably average, just not too big. It’s conservation status is very good considering it has nodes, bendable spiked joints. This explains that even though the clathraria rubrinodis does not have the killing skills of a tiger it is still very amazing.

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Finally, I am going to talk about the clathraria rubrinodis’s diet, feeding habits, and predators. It plays a small role in it’s food web being an animal that cannot move. It feeds on small shrimp, plankton, and use zoxanthella as a major energy source. Some predators to the clathraria are barracuda, angelfish, Manta rays, Green turtles, octopi, and parrot fish. A clathraria can protect itself with it’s spiked joints. This all proposes that not all animals are predators, sometimes it is the other way around.

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To conclusion, the clathraria rubrinodis is important and interesting because it is one of the very amazing, but very unknown animals. What stood out to me was the bendable spiked interconnections used to protect itself. I think people should just stop and take look at all the other very stupendous animals like the clathraria rubrinodis.