Corrugated coral
Pavona varians
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
- Agariciidae
- Genus
- Pavona
Where to Find
Found in 46 diving areas across 32 countries and 8 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 6 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 6 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 98 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 1 records
- Bocas del Toro, Panama - 46 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 46 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 5 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 21 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 3 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 6 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 2 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 2 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 1 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 5 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 1267 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 1 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 169 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 12 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 6 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 13 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 1 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 1 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 6 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 - 3 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 1 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 4 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 2 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 1 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 2 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 1 records
- Deep South, Egypt - 2 records
- Yanbu, Saudi Arabia - 1 records
- Galápagos Islands, Ecuador - 45 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 2 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 2 records
- Mabul & Kapalai, Malaysia - 1 records
- Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - 2 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 2 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 1 records