Starry cup coral
Acanthastrea echinata
Category: Hard Corals
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Class
- Hexacorallia
- Order
- Scleractinia
- Family
- Lobophylliidae
- Genus
- Acanthastrea
Where to Find
Found in 37 diving areas across 26 countries and 6 regions.
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 69 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 6 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 2 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 1 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 3 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 2 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 2 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 6 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 38 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 4 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 25 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 1 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 1 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 8 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 2 records
- North Ari Atoll, Maldives - 1 records
- South Ari Atoll, Maldives - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 3 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 3 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 1 records
- Bazaruto Archipelago, Mozambique - 2 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 5 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 2 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 1 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 2 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 1 records
- Eilat, Israel - 8 records
- Aqaba, Jordan - 9 records
- Aqaba Marine Park, Jordan - 9 records
- Yanbu, Saudi Arabia - 1 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 1 records
- Perhentian Islands, Malaysia - 2 records
- Redang Island, Malaysia - 2 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 15 records