Lettuce coral
Pectinia lactuca
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
- Pectinia
Where to Find
Found in 26 diving areas across 18 countries and 6 regions.
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 133 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 1 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 1 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 2 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 18 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 3 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
- Vaavu Atoll, Maldives - 3 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 1 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 1 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 1 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 2 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 1 records
- Halmahera, Indonesia - 2 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 2 records
- Perhentian Islands, Malaysia - 3 records
- Redang Island, Malaysia - 3 records
- Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - 6 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 16 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 6 records