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Family Acroporidae

JAPAN

Acropora japonica

Kaminato, Hachi-jo Island, Japan, 20 feet

JAPANESE TABLE CORAL

Fairly common on rocky reefs.  Forms plates with closely-packed vertical fingers.  Axial corallites small, short radial corallites of uniform size, tubular with slightly flaring lips.  Green or brown. Endemic to Central Japan.