Staghorn coral
Acropora aspera
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 42 diving areas across 26 countries and 6 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 2 records
- Coral Sea, Australia - 36 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 82 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 2 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 1 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 5 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 3 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 9 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 3 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 1 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 12 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 12 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 24 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 1 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 105 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 8 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 9 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 1 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 1 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 2 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 6 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- South Ari Atoll, Maldives - 2 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 1 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 1 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 1 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 2 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 1 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 8 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 4 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 6 records
- Halmahera, Indonesia - 9 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 1 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 2 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 24 records
- Perhentian Islands, Malaysia - 2 records
- Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - 4 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 3 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 4 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 4 records