#5064 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Mustard Hill Coral
Porites astreoides
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Pauline Walsh Jacobson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Pauline Walsh Jacobson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Kerry Lewis · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Kerry Lewis · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 6. © Jeff Garner · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Patrik Jansson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Phil's 1stPix · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Sally Johnson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Pauline Walsh Jacobson · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Porites astreoides is a colonial species of stony coral in the family Poritidae. Its common name is the mustard hill coral or the yellow porites .
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 3,226 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Mustard Hill Coral
- scientific name
- Porites astreoides
- class
- Anthozoa
- order
- Scleractinia
- family
- Poritidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 3,226
- GBIF records in NL
- 9
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 110084, Wikidata Q3333980, GBIF 5184785, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.