Locally common in
a variety of habitats. Domed plates or clumps with thick branches,
crowded radial corallites of two sizes with with cupped lower lip.
Acropora millepora has
radial corallites of uniform size. Cream, gray, brown, or greenish
with yellowish branch tips. Central Indian Ocean to Samoa.
All
coral skeletons illustrated are from scientific collections taken prior
to 1998. |