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Family Acroporidae

INDO-PACIFIC

Acropora latistella

Leone, Tutuila, American Samoa, 25 feet

 

Utulei, Tutuila, American Samoa, 15 feet

Leone, Tutuila, American Samoa, 25 feet

WIDE STAR ACROPORA

Common in shallow murky water.  Domed plates with short thin upturned branches, radial corallites forming rosettes, short with flaring lips.  Cream, gray, brown, or greenish with yellowish branch tips.  Indo-Pacific excluding Hawaii.

All coral skeletons illustrated are from scientific collections taken prior to 1998.