Pavona coral
Pavona cactus
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
- Agariciidae
- Genus
- Pavona
Where to Find
Found in 27 diving areas across 19 countries and 6 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 2 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 57 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 1 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 2 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 44 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 7 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 1 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 1 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 4 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 4 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 1 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 1 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 2 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 4 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 2 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 1 records
- Yanbu, Saudi Arabia - 1 records
- Port Sudan & Sanganeb, Sudan - 5 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 1 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 2 records
- Perhentian Islands, Malaysia - 11 records
- Redang Island, Malaysia - 11 records
- Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - 2 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 3 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 2 records