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Family Acroporidae

INDO-PACIFIC

Acropora digitifera

Rainmaker Point, Tutuila, American Samoa, 15 feet

 

Tafananai, Tutuila, American Samoa, 5 feet

FINGER ACROPORA

Fairly common on shallow reefs exposed to moderate wave action.  Circular colonies of short vertical branches with small axial corallites and tubular radial corallites of uniform size.  Light brown, cream, or blue with pink branch tips.  Acropora samoensis has curved irregular branches.  Indo-Pacific excluding Hawaii.