Staghorn coral
Acropora aculeus
Category: Hard Corals
IUCN Conservation Status: EN - Endangered - facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Class
- Hexacorallia
- Order
- Scleractinia
- Family
- Acroporidae
- Genus
- Acropora
Where to Find
Found in 48 diving areas across 25 countries and 6 regions.
- Coral Sea, Australia - 25 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 250 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 4 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 3 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 19 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 2 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 38 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 9 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 3 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 12 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 1 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 15 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 3 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 5 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 6 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 4 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 1 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 1 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 7 records
- Baa Atoll, Maldives - 11 records
- North Ari Atoll, Maldives - 7 records
- North Malé Atoll, Maldives - 21 records
- Rasdhoo Atoll, Maldives - 21 records
- South Ari Atoll, Maldives - 10 records
- South Malé Atoll, Maldives - 21 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 2 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 14 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 1 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 1 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 1 records
- Hikkaduwa & South Coast, Sri Lanka - 2 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 2 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 2 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 1 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 19 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 20 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 18 records
- Halmahera, Indonesia - 12 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 3 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 11 records
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia - 3 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 53 records
- Mabul & Kapalai, Malaysia - 8 records
- Perhentian Islands, Malaysia - 2 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 6 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 1 records