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Updated 6/28/2016

Family Acroporidae

INDO-PACIFIC

Acropora samoensis

Amalau, Tutuila, American Samoa, 15 feet

 

Tafananai, Tutuila, American Samoa, 5 feet

 

Coconut Point, Tutuila, American Samoa, 20 feet



Sunabe, Okinawa, 10 feet
 

SAMOAN ACROPORA

Common on shallow reefs exposed to wave action.  Hemispherical colonies of curved branches with some side branches, large axial corallites and tubular radial corallites of two sizes.  Acropora gemmifera has radial corallites which increase in size below, Acropora digitifera has straight vertical branches.  Purplish blue or light brown.  Indo-Pacific excluding Hawaii.

All coral skeletons illustrated are from scientific collections taken prior to 1998.