🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Bushy staghorn coral live?

Acropora valida has 3,628 records in 56 countries and territories, from 1899 to 2025. 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

18992025

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 1,909
Indonesia 407
Papua New Guinea 161
Japan 155
United States Minor Outlying Islands 109
Taiwan 93
Maldives 70
New Caledonia 60
Guam 52
Marshall Islands 44
French Polynesia 36
Samoa 33
American Samoa 31
Kiribati 31
Micronesia 28
Iran 28
Kenya 28
Yemen 28
Thailand 27
RΓ©union 25
Seychelles 24
British Indian Ocean Territory 22
Philippines 22
Mayotte 21
Pitcairn 20
United States 16
Fiji 15
ZZ 14
Malaysia 12
Cook Islands 11
China 8
Mauritius 7
Niue 6
Oman 6
Saudi Arabia 6
Sri Lanka 5
Singapore 5
French Southern Territories 5
Colombia 4
India 4

Showing the top 40 of 56 places.

Related animals

Others in the family Acroporidae.

elkhorn coral
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staghorn coral
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fused staghorn coral
fused staghorn coral
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3,666 records
Branching staghorn coral
2,894 records
Finger Coral
2,711 records
Acropora cerealis
2,307 records
Bali Shortcake
1,796 records
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.