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Family
Acroporidae
INDO-PACIFIC
Acropora
retusa
East Taema Bank, American Samoa, 65 feet
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BLUNT ACROPORA
Uncommon on
shallow reefs exposed to wave action. Plates with short fingers, axial corallites
small, appressed radial corallites with flaring openings near branch
ends. Light brown. Acropora
gemmifera has exsert radial corallites. Indo-Pacific.
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