Staghorn coral
Acropora horrida
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 29 diving areas across 15 countries and 5 regions.
- Coral Sea, Australia - 25 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 6 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 6 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 12 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 5 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 15 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 2 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 36 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 9 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 2 records
- Baa Atoll, Maldives - 7 records
- North Ari Atoll, Maldives - 7 records
- North Malé Atoll, Maldives - 12 records
- Rasdhoo Atoll, Maldives - 12 records
- South Ari Atoll, Maldives - 10 records
- South Malé Atoll, Maldives - 12 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 5 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 1 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 16 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 23 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 3 records
- Halmahera, Indonesia - 20 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 5 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 12 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 51 records
- Perhentian Islands, Malaysia - 3 records
- Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - 2 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 3 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 5 records