Where Larger knob coral has been recorded
GBIF occurrence records for Dipsastraea speciosa, mapped and tabulated by country.
1,152 georeferenced occurrence records with coordinates are published for Dipsastraea speciosa through GBIF, from 45 countries or marine areas. This page maps those records and lists where they come from. Occurrence records reflect where people have looked as well as where the species lives, so well-surveyed coastlines are over-represented.
- Georeferenced records
- 1,152
- Countries / areas
- 45
- Mapped locations
- 196
- Records sampled for the map
- 1,152
- Inland records omitted
- 51
- Gbif taxonkey
- 8400775
Countries and areas with the most records (GBIF)
Japan — 494 records; Australia — 362 records; Réunion — 59 records; Marshall Islands — 31 records; Indonesia — 21 records; United States Minor Outlying Islands — 19 records; Egypt — 14 records; Micronesia (Federated States of) — 12 records; New Caledonia — 12 records; India — 11 records; Fiji — 10 records; Mayotte — 10 records; Iran (Islamic Republic of) — 8 records; Chinese Taipei — 7 records; Myanmar — 6 records.
Source: GBIF Occurrence Search (taxonKey 8400775) — https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?taxon_key=8400775&has_coordinate=true (records CC0 / CC BY). Accessed 2026-09-23.
How to read this map
The map plots a sample of 1,152 of the 1,152 records, deduplicated to a half-degree grid, so dense areas do not merge into one blob. The sample covers 45 of the 45 countries or areas with records; the areas absent from the sample hold 0 records in total.
51 records plotting inland were omitted: for a marine species those are almost always the holding institution's coordinates rather than a collection site.
Records show where the species has been observed and reported, not a modelled range.
Source: GBIF Occurrence Search (taxonKey 8400775) — https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?taxon_key=8400775&has_coordinate=true (records CC0 / CC BY); WoRMS distribution records (MarineRegions) — https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=758219 (CC BY 4.0); Natural Earth 110m basemap — https://www.naturalearthdata.com/ (public domain). Accessed 2026-09-23.
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