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Family Acroporidae

INDO-PACIFIC

Acropora nana

Tafananai, Tutuila, American Samoa, 3 feet

DWARF ACROPORA

Locally common in shallow water exposed to wave action.  Small fragile hemispheres of long straight branches, long tubular radial corallites fused to branch.  Cream or bluish-purple, often with purple tips.  Indo-Pacific excluding Hawaii.

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