Home > Corals > Acropora > Acropora hyacinthus

Family Acroporidae

INDO-PACIFIC

Acropora hyacinthus

Tafananai, Tutuila, American Samoa, 5 feet

 

Leone, Tutuila, American Samoa, 25 feet

HYACINTH TABLE CORAL

Very common on shallow reefs in open water.  Large flat plates with thin, closely-spaced upturned branchlets, axial corallites small, cupped radial corallites short, forming rosettes.  Cream, gray, brown, or green.  Indo-Pacific excluding Hawaii.