great star coral
Montastraea cavernosa (Linnaeus, 1767)
Cnidaria › Anthozoa › Scleractinia › Montastraeidae
Records by month at ReefSeason sites
Monthly counts appear only where the species made a site's top 25 for that month, so treat them as a lower bound.
Jan
0
Feb
8
Mar
0
Apr
2
May
4
Jun
13
Jul
10
Aug
12
Sep
17
Oct
16
Nov
5
Dec
9
Where it's recorded
- Looe Key (110 records)
- Sombrero Key (87 records)
- Molasses Reef (76 records)
- Carysfort Reef (57 records)
- Conch Reef (44 records)
- Western Sambo (33 records)
- Alligator Reef (28 records)
- Cheeca Rocks (22 records)
- Tennessee Reef (14 records)
- Key Largo Dry Rocks (Christ of the Abyss) (7 records)
- Davis Reef (6 records)
- French Reef (4 records)
- Pickles Reef (3 records)
Taxonomy and names: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Occurrence data: GBIF.org, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records only. See each site page for dataset citations. No photo yet: we only show images with a verified open license.