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Created 12/3/2020

Family Pocilloporidae

INDO-PACIFIC / HAWAII

Pocillopora acuta



Vava'u, Tonga, 6 feet

Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, 3 feet

 

Palau

Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, 3 feet

 

Fluorescent image, Kaneohe Bay

Makapu'u tidepool, Oahu

 


Bleached, Lanikai, Oahu, 6 feet


Kuata, Fiji, 6 feet
   

  PRICKLY LACE CORAL

Common on sheltered reefs.  Long or short branches with narrow irregular tips.   Easily confused with delicate forms of Pocillopora damicornis.  A commensal crab forms galls on some colonies.  Red Sea to Hawaii and French Polynesia.