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Coral Triangle

Species

Green sea turtle

Green sea turtle
© WWF-Canon / Jürgen FREUND

The richness of coral, fish and other species in the Coral Triangle is so high that the region is sometimes referred to as the “Amazon of the Seas," and is home to:

  • 75 percent of all coral species known to science;
  • More than 3,000 species of reef fish and commercially valuable pelagic species including yellowfin tuna, skipjack tuna, bigeye tuna, bumphead parrotfish, and Napoleon wrasse;
  • Bigfin reef squid

    Bigfin reef squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana) swimming in darkness
    © Brandon Cole

    Six of the world’s seven species of marine turtles including the green, hawksbill, olive ridley, leatherback, loggerhead, and flatback;
  • Migrating whale sharks and manta rays which are attracted to the region by abundant plankton;
  • Marine mammals including 22 species of dolphin, endangered dugong, Bryde’s whale, short-finned pilot whale, three species of sperm whales, humpback whale, Cuvier’s and Blainville’s beaked whales and the world’s least studied cetacean – Longman’s beaked whale.