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Updated 3/9/2025

Family Acroporidae

WEST PACIFIC

Acropora spp.

Leone, Tutuila, American Samoa, 25 feet

 

Amalau, Tutuila, American Samoa, 15 feet

 

 

Blue Corner, Palau, 15 feet

 
   

SLENDER ACROPORA

Common on shallow reefs in clear water.  Domed plates or clumps with neat delicate branches, long tubular axial corallites, Radial corallites with flaring openings in rosettes.  Color variable often with purple tips.  West Pacific.  Related to Acropora tenuis from Fiji.