Smooth cauliflower coral
Stylophora pistillata
Category: Hard Corals
IUCN Conservation Status: NT - Near Threatened - close to qualifying for a threatened category in the near future
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Class
- Hexacorallia
- Order
- Scleractinia
- Family
- Pocilloporidae
- Genus
- Stylophora
Where to Find
Found in 48 diving areas across 30 countries and 7 regions.
- Coral Sea, Australia - 33 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 291 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 1 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 6 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 1 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 8 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 15 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 2 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 4 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 2 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 3 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 199 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 2 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 2 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 2 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 125 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 21 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 52 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 14 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 1 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 1 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 1 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 11 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 3 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 6 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 6 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 1 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 7 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 4 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 9 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 3 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 48 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 3 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 2 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 1 records
- Aqaba, Jordan - 5 records
- Aqaba Marine Park, Jordan - 5 records
- Yanbu, Saudi Arabia - 2 records
- Port Sudan & Sanganeb, Sudan - 4 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 2 records
- Cenderawasih Bay, Indonesia - 1 records
- Halmahera, Indonesia - 2 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 2 records
- Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - 2 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 5 records