About Pocillopora grandis Dana, 1846
Pocillopora grandis Dana, 1846 is a colonial species of stony coral belonging to the family Pocilloporidae. Its common name is antler coral. Its range extends from the Indo-West Pacific to the Eastern Tropical Pacific. Specifically, this coral is distributed across the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, as well as the southwest and northeastern Indian Ocean, the central Indo-Pacific, tropical Australia, southern Japan, the South China Sea, the oceanic West Pacific, the central Pacific, the Hawaiian Islands, Johnston Atoll, and the Far Eastern Pacific. In the Eastern Tropical Pacific region, it can also be found off the coasts of Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador.
