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Updated 12/30/2016

Family Acroporidae

INDO-PACIFIC

Acropora nasuta

Utulei, Tutuila, American Samoa, 5 feet

 

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Clam City, Palau, 8 feet

 

BIG-NOSED ACROPORA

Common in a variety of habitats.  Irregular clumps with curved tapering branches, tubular axial corallites, and distinctive nose-like radial corallites in vertical rows.  Color variable with pink tips.  Acropora valida has short swollen radial corallites.  Indo-Pacific.