Crown of thorns starfish
Acanthaster planci
Category: Starfish
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Class
- Asteroidea
- Order
- Valvatida
- Family
- Acanthasteridae
- Genus
- Acanthaster
Where to Find
Found in 55 diving areas across 31 countries and 8 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 5 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 5 records
- Coral Sea, Australia - 28 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 191 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 2 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 2 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 14 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 5 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 4 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 1 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 1 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 23 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 15 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 79 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 18 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 13 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 29 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 50 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 3 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 22 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 21 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 8 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 62 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 2 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 10 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 8 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 1 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 4 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 21 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 4 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 3 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 4 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 26 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- North Malé Atoll, Maldives - 4 records
- Rasdhoo Atoll, Maldives - 17 records
- South Ari Atoll, Maldives - 2 records
- South Malé Atoll, Maldives - 17 records
- Vaavu Atoll, Maldives - 13 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 9 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 5 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 9 records
- Dar es Salaam & Offshore Islands, Tanzania - 25 records
- Socorro Islands, Mexico - 5 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 4 records
- Aqaba Marine Park, Jordan - 9 records
- Fujairah, United Arab Emirates - 12 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 13 records
- Halmahera, Indonesia - 4 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 2 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 2 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 8 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 5 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 1 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 11 records