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Updated 4/5/2013

Family Acroporidae

INDO-PACIFIC

& the NORTHWESTERN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS

Acropora paniculata

Rapture Reef, French Frigate Shoals, 75 feet

 

South Reef, French Frigate Shoals, 40 feet

South Reef, French Frigate Shoals, 40 feet

 

Leone, Tutuila, American Samoa, 25 feet

 

Amalau, Tutuila, American Samoa, 25 feet

Larsen Bay, Tutuila, American Samoa, 50 feet

 

Wakatobi, Indonesia, 30 feet

FUZZY TABLE CORAL

Uncommon on reefs at scuba depth.  Forms large thick tables of upturned branches tipped with many long tubular axial corallites, immersed radial corallites toward base.  Cream, brown or gray.  Acropora granulosa has fewer, shorter axial corallites.  Indonesia to Southern Japan, Samoa, and Central Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.