What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Branching staghorn coral been recorded?

Acropora nasuta occurrence evidence comes from 622 records in 19 countries and territories, from 1899 to 2010. Most records come from Australia.

Branching staghorn coral
Branching staghorn coral — Photo (display-sized rendition): Ewa Barska · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnthozoaScleractiniaAcroporidaeAcropora

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

622 records across 19 countries and territories, 1899–2010.

Acropora nasuta · GBIF taxon key 5184593

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-23. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: May.

3 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

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

18992010

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

Where Branching staghorn coral has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Branching staghorn coral. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Australia 383
Indonesia 72
French Polynesia 20
Papua New Guinea 19
Kiribati 18
Cook Islands 16
Niue 12
PN 11
Solomon Islands 11
Samoa 10
Marshall Islands 9
New Caledonia 8
Micronesia 7
United States Minor Outlying Islands 7
American Samoa 5
Fiji 5
Philippines 5
British Indian Ocean Territory 2
Tonga 2

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. 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.