Encrusting pore coral
Montipora aequituberculata
Category: Hard Corals
IUCN Conservation Status: EN - Endangered - facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Class
- Hexacorallia
- Order
- Scleractinia
- Family
- Acroporidae
- Genus
- Montipora
Where to Find
Found in 31 diving areas across 20 countries and 6 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 2 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 197 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 4 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 1 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 1 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 1 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 107 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 48 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 18 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 26 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 1 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 1 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- North Ari Atoll, Maldives - 1 records
- South Ari Atoll, Maldives - 1 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 1 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 3 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 1 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 2 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 1 records
- Aqaba, Jordan - 4 records
- Aqaba Marine Park, Jordan - 4 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 2 records
- Cenderawasih Bay, Indonesia - 3 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 2 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 1 records
- Perhentian Islands, Malaysia - 3 records
- Redang Island, Malaysia - 3 records