Cauliflower coral
Pocillopora verrucosa
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
- Pocilloporidae
- Genus
- Pocillopora
Where to Find
Found in 47 diving areas across 31 countries and 9 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 3 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 146 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 8 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 1 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 9 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 15 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 3 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 1 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 78 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 1 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 4 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 2 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 130 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 9 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 16 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 8 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 30 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 2 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 2 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 2 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 11 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 3 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 2 records
- North Ari Atoll, Maldives - 1 records
- South Ari Atoll, Maldives - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 4 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 4 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 2 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 2 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 6 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 3 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 17 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 1 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 4 records
- Socorro Islands, Mexico - 1 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 2 records
- Eilat, Israel - 8 records
- Aqaba, Jordan - 9 records
- Aqaba Marine Park, Jordan - 9 records
- Daymaniyat Islands, Oman - 2 records
- Yanbu, Saudi Arabia - 1 records
- Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile - 12 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 1 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 2 records
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia - 2 records
- Tioman Island, Malaysia - 4 records