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Family Acroporidae

INDO-PACIFIC

Acropora retusa

East Taema Bank, American Samoa, 65 feet

 

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.