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Family Acroporidae

INDO-PACIFIC

& the NORTHWESTERN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS

Acropora valida

French Frigate Shoals, NWHI, 30 feet

STRONG ACROPORA

Locally common on shallow reefs in the tropics, scattered to rare in the central NWHI.  Small clumps or tables with narrow branches, axial corallites small and short, radial corallites swollen with constricted openings, color variable.  Similar to Acropora nasuta & Acropora cerealis.  Indo-Pacific & the Galapagos.