Brain coral
Platygyra daedalea
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
- Merulinidae
- Genus
- Platygyra
Where to Find
Found in 50 diving areas across 30 countries and 6 regions.
- Coral Sea, Australia - 42 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 300 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 8 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 6 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 2 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 14 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 10 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 1 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 5 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 6 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 2 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 28 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 2 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 79 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 12 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 13 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 10 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 32 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 1 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 1 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 2 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 5 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 2 records
- North Ari Atoll, Maldives - 1 records
- North Malé Atoll, Maldives - 4 records
- Rasdhoo Atoll, Maldives - 4 records
- South Ari Atoll, Maldives - 1 records
- South Malé Atoll, Maldives - 4 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 5 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 3 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 1 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 9 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 3 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 3 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 1 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 2 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 1 records
- Yanbu, Saudi Arabia - 1 records
- Dubai & Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - 3 records
- Fujairah, United Arab Emirates - 22 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 2 records
- Perhentian Islands, Malaysia - 2 records
- Redang Island, Malaysia - 2 records
- Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - 4 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 3 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 2 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 4 records