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Family
Acroporidae
INDO-PACIFIC
Acropora
robusta
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Tafananai, Tutuila, American Samoa, 6 feet
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cropped
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ROBUST ACROPORA
Common on shallow reefs exposed to wave action.
Thick and encrusting in the center with irregular knobs and cones and
spreading upturned fingers along margins, axial corallites at branch
tips, rasp-shaped radial corallites of several sizes. Greenish or
yellowish brown. Indo-Pacific. |
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