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Family Acroporidae

INDO-PACIFIC

& the NORTHWESTERN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS

Acropora cytherea

Rapture Reef, French Frigate Shoals, 70 feet

 

Gardner Pinnacles, NWHI, 20 feet

Gardner Pinnacles, NWHI, 20 feet

 

Tutuila, American Samoa

TABLE CORAL

Most common species of Acropora at French Frigate Shoals and Maro Reef.  Surface flat with closely spaced spiked branches, apex of a single tubular corallite.  Attains diameter of at least 6 feet.  Found throughout the Indo-Pacific.

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