“…Another research was conducted on Indonesian mangroves in Gorontalo (Kasim et al 2019), North Maluku (Serosero et al 2020), East Kalimantan (Edwin et al 2021), and West Lombok (Sukuryadi et al 2021) recorded 9, 10, 15 and 12 species, respectively. However, species composition in Benoa Bay's Rhizophora zone had a higher species number than Mare Island (Akbar et al 2016), Jakarta Bay , Situbondo, East Java (Hariyanto et al 2019), Mantehage-Paniki Islands, North Sulawesi (Opa et al 2019) and Cirebon (Purwanto et al 2022) were only found five true mangrove species. Several mangrove species were co-dominantly identified with Rhizophora, such as A. alba, B. hainesii, B. parviflora, E. agallocha, H. littoralis, L. littorea, S. hydrophyllacea, S. ovata and X. moluccensis, as found in Riau (Prianto et al 2006), and A. officinalis, B. cylindrica, B. sexangula, S. caseolaris in North Sumatra, Indonesia (Harefa et al 2022).…”