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Where does the pineapple coral live?

Dichocoenia stokesii has 14,788 records in 39 countries and territories, from 1859 to 2026. Most records come from US Virgin Islands.

pineapple coral
pineapple coral — James St. John / CC BY 2.0 · source
AnimaliaCnidariaAnthozoaScleractiniaMeandrinidaeDichocoenia

When it is recorded

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Peak month: June. 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.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
US Virgin Islands 5,806
United States 4,609
Puerto Rico 2,497
Colombia 750
Bahamas 189
Guadeloupe 170
Belize 126
Mexico 93
Costa Rica 76
Cayman Islands 69
Cuba 59
Martinique 59
Panama 49
Bonaire 31
Dominican Republic 28
Jamaica 25
Trinidad & Tobago 24
Venezuela 24
ZZ 14
Curaçao 13
British Virgin Islands 13
Sint Maarten 9
Dominica 7
Honduras 6
Haiti 6
Turks and Caicos Islands 6
Saint Barthélemy 5
Bermuda 5
Barbados 3
Saint Martin 3
Montserrat 3
St Kitts & Nevis 2
Tonga 2
St Vincent & the Grenadines 2
Antigua & Barbuda 1
Aruba 1
Brazil 1
Grenada 1
Saint Lucia 1

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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.