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Where does the Brush Coral live?

Acropora hyacinthus has 3,666 records in 52 countries and territories, from 1874 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

Brush Coral
Brush Coral — Photo: Holobionics · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaCnidariaAnthozoaScleractiniaAcroporidaeAcropora

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18742026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Australia 1,894
Indonesia 510
Japan 173
China 102
Taiwan 88
Papua New Guinea 85
New Caledonia 73
French Polynesia 69
Mayotte 63
Cook Islands 54
Philippines 50
Marshall Islands 45
British Indian Ocean Territory 43
Micronesia 41
United States Minor Outlying Islands 40
Réunion 36
Fiji 27
Niue 27
Thailand 19
Malaysia 17
Kiribati 16
French Southern Territories 14
Mauritius 13
Palau 12
Seychelles 12
Pitcairn 10
Solomon Islands 10
American Samoa 9
Tuvalu 9
Samoa 9
India 8
Maldives 8
Egypt 7
Kenya 7
Yemen 7
Norfolk Island 6
Singapore 6
Cocos Islands 5
Vietnam 5
Sri Lanka 4

Showing the top 40 of 52 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.