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Where does the golfball coral live?

Favia fragum has 12,424 records in 43 countries and territories, from 1856 to 2026. Most records come from US Virgin Islands.

golfball coral
golfball coral — T. Wayland Vaughan / Public domain · source
AnimaliaCnidariaAnthozoaScleractiniaFaviidaeFavia

When it is recorded

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Peak month: August. 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 5,706
United States 4,233
Colombia 1,027
Puerto Rico 627
Bermuda 136
Panama 97
Jamaica 80
Belize 74
Barbados 64
Mexico 58
Cayman Islands 48
Martinique 37
Curaçao 31
Bahamas 29
Trinidad & Tobago 28
Guadeloupe 19
Bonaire 15
Venezuela 14
Costa Rica 13
Cabo Verde 12
Turks and Caicos Islands 11
Saint Martin 7
Sint Maarten 7
Saint Barthélemy 6
Haiti 6
Cuba 4
Dominica 4
Dominican Republic 4
Honduras 4
Brazil 3
St Vincent & the Grenadines 3
Antigua & Barbuda 2
Aruba 2
St Kitts & Nevis 2
Mozambique 2
South Africa 2
United Kingdom 1
Grenada 1
Montserrat 1
Nicaragua 1

Showing the top 40 of 43 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.