🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the hump coral live?

Porites furcata has 11,257 records in 35 countries and territories, from 1884 to 2026. Most records come from US Virgin Islands.

hump coral
hump coral — James St. John / CC BY 2.0 · source
AnimaliaCnidariaAnthozoaScleractiniaPoritidaePorites

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 5,751
Puerto Rico 2,479
United States 1,659
Panama 666
Colombia 154
Cuba 113
Jamaica 100
Mexico 98
Costa Rica 79
Belize 27
ZZ 21
Bahamas 14
Martinique 14
Curaçao 13
Barbados 9
Bermuda 7
Guadeloupe 6
Saint Barthélemy 5
Bonaire 5
Trinidad & Tobago 5
Grenada 4
Saint Martin 4
Dominican Republic 3
Saint Lucia 3
Montserrat 3
Venezuela 3
Honduras 2
Haiti 2
St Vincent & the Grenadines 2
Antigua & Barbuda 1
Dominica 1
St Kitts & Nevis 1
Cayman Islands 1
Nicaragua 1
Turks and Caicos Islands 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.