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title: "Mustard Hill Coral"
description: "Porites astreoides — Weitere Tiere. Porites astreoides, commonly known as mustard hill coral or yellow porites, is a colonial species of stony coral in the family Poritidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/de/animal/mustard-hill-coral
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Mustard Hill Coral

> Porites astreoides — Weitere Tiere. Porites astreoides, commonly known as mustard hill coral or yellow porites, is a colonial species of stony coral in the family Poritidae.

- Scientific name: *Porites astreoides*
- Category: `other` (Weitere Tiere)
- Habitats: `sea` (Meer & Küste)
- iNaturalist observations: 3172
- Wikidata: [Q3333980](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3333980)
- iNaturalist taxon: [110084](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/110084)

## Names

- en: Mustard Hill Coral
- es: Coral mostaza
- fr: Porite étoilé

## Countries with the most observations

MX (430), CW (259), KY (214), US (156), BS (153), HN (126), VI (92), PR (83), GP (81), JM (80), TC (75), BZ (68)

## Summary

Porites astreoides, commonly known as mustard hill coral or yellow porites, is a colonial species of stony coral in the family Poritidae.
It is a common species in the Caribbean Sea and western tropical Atlantic Ocean in North, Central, and South America; and the eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean in western Africa.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porites_astreoides

## Photo

![Mustard Hill Coral](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/mustard-hill-coral/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jesse Rorabaugh · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/213469492

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/mustard-hill-coral?lang=de` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).