🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the hump coral live?

Porites vaughani has 2,545 records in 21 countries and territories, from 1975 to 2022. Most records come from United States Minor Outlying Islands.

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

19752022

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 2,255
Australia 188
American Samoa 23
Marshall Islands 15
ZZ 10
Mayotte 9
Japan 8
New Caledonia 7
Christmas Island 6
Papua New Guinea 5
Guam 3
Indonesia 3
Wallis & Futuna 3
Northern Mariana Islands 2
United States 2
Micronesia 1
Madagascar 1
Maldives 1
Niue 1
French Polynesia 1
Vanuatu 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.