Staghorn coral
Acropora listeri
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 33 diving areas across 25 countries and 6 regions.
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 1 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 6 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 3 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 1 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 6 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 2 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 3 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 12 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 18 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 2 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 1 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 32 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 1 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 2 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 6 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 1 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 1 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 4 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 - 1 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 2 records
- Halmahera, Indonesia - 9 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 10 records
- Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - 7 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 8 records