🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the orange cup coral live?

Tubastraea coccinea has 8,481 records in 84 countries and territories, from 1867 to 2026. Most records come from US Virgin Islands.

orange cup coral
orange cup coral — Diego Delso / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaCnidariaAnthozoaScleractiniaDendrophylliidaeTubastraea

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
US Virgin Islands 4,558
Australia 1,017
Ecuador 823
United States 341
Mexico 326
Puerto Rico 282
United States Minor Outlying Islands 102
Colombia 88
Bonaire 68
Costa Rica 66
Martinique 52
Guadeloupe 51
Hong Kong 51
New Caledonia 50
Philippines 50
Egypt 49
Indonesia 49
Panama 38
Curaçao 34
Thailand 33
Brazil 26
Seychelles 19
Taiwan 19
South Korea 15
Maldives 15
Japan 14
Saint Lucia 14
Madagascar 14
Réunion 13
New Zealand 12
British Virgin Islands 12
Portugal 11
Mayotte 11
Trinidad & Tobago 10
Singapore 8
Venezuela 8
Saint Martin 7
Cuba 6
Cabo Verde 6
Guam 6

Showing the top 40 of 84 places.

Related animals

Others in the family Dendrophylliidae.

beaked stony coral
8,821 records
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.