🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the hump coral live?

Porites lobata has 5,933 records in 49 countries and territories, from 1902 to 2026. Most records come from United States Minor Outlying Islands.

hump coral
hump coral — Photo: not specified · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaCnidariaAnthozoaScleractiniaPoritidaePorites

When it is recorded

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Peak month: April. 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

19022026

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
United States Minor Outlying Islands 1,802
Colombia 1,775
Ecuador 413
Australia 400
United States 298
Mexico 292
American Samoa 249
Japan 134
Costa Rica 77
Réunion 59
Egypt 54
Guam 52
French Polynesia 47
New Caledonia 44
Mayotte 41
Chile 36
Panama 35
Marshall Islands 19
French Southern Territories 16
France 8
Kiribati 8
India 7
Yemen 7
Cocos Islands 6
Indonesia 4
Taiwan 4
ZZ 4
Maldives 3
Philippines 3
Palau 3
Seychelles 3
Wallis & Futuna 3
Christmas Island 2
Fiji 2
Iran 2
Kenya 2
Mozambique 2
Thailand 2
Tuvalu 2
Cook Islands 1

Showing the top 40 of 49 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.