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Acroporidae

20 species · Animals

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Acropora abrotanoides (Lamarck, 1816)

Acropora abrotanoides is a species of branching coral found across multiple oceans from the Red Sea to the Pacific.

Acropora cervicornis (Lamarck, 1816)

Acropora cervicornis, the staghorn coral, is a Western Atlantic stony coral with a well-documented ESA listing history and two reproductive modes.

Acropora florida (Dana, 1846)

Acropora florida is a species of branching coral with variable pinkish-brown or green colouration.

Acropora gemmifera (Brook, 1892)

Acropora gemmifera is a widespread digitate branching coral that is facing global population decline.

Acropora hemprichii (Ehrenberg, 1834)

Acropora hemprichii is a vulnerable branching reef coral found only in the western Indo-Pacific, threatened by bleaching, disease and other stressors.

Acropora humilis (Dana, 1846)

Acropora humilis is a Near Threatened reef-building coral found across the Indo-Pacific, and is exported to aquariums.

Acropora hyacinthus (Dana, 1846)

Acropora hyacinthus is a table- or plate-forming stony coral found on shallow reefs in the Central Pacific and eastern Australia.

Acropora millepora (Ehrenberg, 1834)

Acropora millepora is a small common colonial zooxanthellate coral found in shallow Indo-Pacific reef habitats.

Acropora monticulosa (Brüggemann, 1879)

Acropora monticulosa is a Near Threatened stony coral found in shallow Indo-Pacific reefs, with a decreasing population.

Acropora palmata (Lamarck, 1816)

Elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) is a threatened, fast-growing Caribbean reef-building coral that reproduces mostly through fragmentation.

Acropora tenuis (Dana, 1846)

Acropora tenuis is a near threatened branching coral found across the Indo-Pacific, with a decreasing population.

Acropora valida (Dana, 1846)

Acropora valida is a species of stony coral with a decreasing population found across a broad Indo-Pacific range.

Acropora prolifera (Lamarck, 1816)

Acropora prolifera is an uncommon Caribbean hybrid staghorn coral, typically found at around 7m depth.

Acropora muricata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Acropora muricata is a near threatened branching stony coral with a wide Indo-Pacific distribution.

Astreopora myriophthalma (Lamarck, 1816)

Astreopora myriophthalma is a widespread Indo-Pacific colonial coral that hosts symbiotic boring invertebrates.

Isopora palifera (Lamarck, 1816)

Isopora palifera is a common reef-building stony coral found across the Indo-Pacific region with growth forms shaped by local water movement.

Montipora capitata (Dana, 1846)

Montipora capitata, commonly called rice coral, is a colonial Pacific coral preyed on by crown-of-thorns starfish.

Montipora digitata (Dana, 1846)

Montipora digitata is a coral species that forms large bushy hemispherical colonies with a characteristic pitted skeleton.

Montipora flabellata Studer, 1901

Montipora flabellata is an encrusting hard coral endemic to Hawaiʻi that spawns across summer with no lunar link, currently under ESA review.

Montipora patula Verrill, 1869

Montipora patula is a Hawaiian endemic reef coral that forms small encrusting or large plated brownish colonies.

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