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Created 10/1/2021

Family Acroporidae

INDO-PACIFIC

Astreopora cucullata

Wakatobi, Indonesia

 

  

 

HOODED ASTREOPORA

 Uncommon on shallow reefs where it forms thick plates or encrusting sheets.  Corallites of variable height and shape are crowded together and tilted downward with a hooded appearance, color variable.  Red Sea to the Philippines and Samoa.