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Family Acroporidae

 TROPICAL PACIFIC

Acropora speciosa

Rainmaker, Tutuila, American Samoa, 45 feet

 

Wakatobi, Indonesia, 35 feet

SHOWY ACROPORA

Uncommon on protected reefs.  Forms mounds of bottlebrush branches lined with curved tubular axial corallites and shorter triangular radial corallites.  Cream with tips of different color.  Indonesia and the Tropical Pacific.