🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the knobbed brain coral live?

Pseudodiploria clivosa has 16,576 records in 42 countries and territories, from 1856 to 2026. Most records come from US Virgin Islands.

AnimaliaCnidariaAnthozoaScleractiniaFaviidaePseudodiploria

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 5,809
United States 4,078
Puerto Rico 2,555
United Kingdom 1,080
Colombia 831
Mexico 507
Bahamas 290
Cuba 223
Panama 175
Guadeloupe 144
Jamaica 107
Belize 90
Bonaire 75
Curaçao 72
Nicaragua 61
Cayman Islands 60
Costa Rica 58
ZZ 49
Martinique 48
Dominican Republic 40
Honduras 38
Venezuela 35
Trinidad & Tobago 31
Sint Maarten 24
Turks and Caicos Islands 13
Saint Martin 12
Barbados 11
Saint Lucia 9
Dominica 8
Haiti 7
St Vincent & the Grenadines 6
Saint Barthélemy 5
British Virgin Islands 5
Anguilla 4
Aruba 4
Antigua & Barbuda 3
Grenada 2
St Kitts & Nevis 2
Montserrat 2
Bermuda 1

Showing the top 40 of 42 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.