Brain coral
Platygyra sinensis
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 29 diving areas across 21 countries and 6 regions.
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 159 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 6 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 2 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 2 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 90 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 10 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 5 records
- Jeju Island, South Korea - 1 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 5 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 30 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 1 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 1 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 4 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 7 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- North Ari Atoll, Maldives - 2 records
- South Ari Atoll, Maldives - 2 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
- Komodo, Indonesia - 1 records
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia - 4 records
- Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - 3 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 45 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 3 records