Montipora coral
Montipora verrucosa
Category: Hard Corals
IUCN Conservation Status: VU - Vulnerable - facing a 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 30 diving areas across 24 countries and 6 regions.
- Coral Sea, Australia - 25 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 3 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 2 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 3 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 36 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 5 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 45 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 4 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 11 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 1 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 1 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- North Ari Atoll, Maldives - 1 records
- South Ari Atoll, Maldives - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 4 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 4 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 1 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 7 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 3 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 1 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 2 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 1 records
- Deep South, Egypt - 1 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 1 records
- Mabul & Kapalai, Malaysia - 3 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 2 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 3 records