🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the brain coral live?

Pseudodiploria strigosa has 30,591 records in 42 countries and territories, from 1851 to 2026. Most records come from Colombia.

brain coral
brain coral — Louiswray / CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
AnimaliaCnidariaAnthozoaScleractiniaFaviidaePseudodiploria

When it is recorded

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Peak month: October. 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
Colombia 10,079
US Virgin Islands 6,652
United States 4,800
Puerto Rico 2,855
Mexico 1,016
Belize 622
Cuba 599
Cayman Islands 566
Bonaire 564
Panama 549
Bahamas 439
Curaçao 219
Venezuela 181
Jamaica 170
Guadeloupe 131
Trinidad & Tobago 128
Costa Rica 108
Bermuda 106
Nicaragua 92
Martinique 87
Turks and Caicos Islands 82
Dominican Republic 80
Honduras 76
British Virgin Islands 71
Sint Maarten 64
ZZ 55
Barbados 45
Aruba 37
Antigua & Barbuda 24
Saint Lucia 21
St Vincent & the Grenadines 13
Haiti 11
Dominica 10
Saint Martin 10
Saint Barthélemy 7
Grenada 7
St Kitts & Nevis 6
Guatemala 2
Montserrat 2
Philippines 2

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.