Large meandroid brain coral
Oulophyllia crispa
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
- Merulinidae
- Genus
- Oulophyllia
Where to Find
Found in 33 diving areas across 21 countries and 6 regions.
- Coral Sea, Australia - 26 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 98 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 10 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 1 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 3 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 1 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 5 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 15 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 4 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 57 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 10 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 1 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 1 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 1 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 4 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- North Ari Atoll, Maldives - 2 records
- South Ari Atoll, Maldives - 2 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 4 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 3 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 1 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 4 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 1 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 1 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 2 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 1 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 1 records
- Yanbu, Saudi Arabia - 1 records
- Cenderawasih Bay, Indonesia - 1 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 2 records
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia - 2 records