Staghorn coral
Acropora cerealis
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 45 diving areas across 28 countries and 6 regions.
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 218 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 3 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 4 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 17 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 18 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 23 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 6 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 10 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 12 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 25 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 6 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 30 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 1 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 70 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 16 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 13 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 2 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 1 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 1 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 2 records
- North Ari Atoll, Maldives - 1 records
- North Malé Atoll, Maldives - 4 records
- Rasdhoo Atoll, Maldives - 4 records
- South Ari Atoll, Maldives - 3 records
- South Malé Atoll, Maldives - 4 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 1 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 9 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 2 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 1 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 2 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 3 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 33 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 16 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 27 records
- Halmahera, Indonesia - 28 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 14 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 129 records
- Perhentian Islands, Malaysia - 4 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 15 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 5 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 1 records