🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Bali Shortcake live?

Acropora latistella has 1,796 records in 41 countries and territories, from 1932 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

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

19322026

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 1,023
Indonesia 315
New Caledonia 63
Japan 47
Papua New Guinea 37
Taiwan 32
Mayotte 29
British Indian Ocean Territory 26
Pitcairn 19
Cook Islands 15
Micronesia 15
Marshall Islands 15
Mauritius 14
French Polynesia 14
Kiribati 13
United States Minor Outlying Islands 11
American Samoa 10
Maldives 9
Niue 9
Tuvalu 9
Philippines 7
RΓ©union 7
South Africa 7
Kenya 5
Malaysia 5
Fiji 4
Palau 4
Vanuatu 4
Cocos Islands 3
Solomon Islands 3
Seychelles 3
Wallis & Futuna 3
Madagascar 2
Myanmar 2
Singapore 2
French Southern Territories 2
Thailand 2
Samoa 2
Yemen 2
Christmas Island 1

Showing the top 40 of 41 places.

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