Staghorn coral
Acropora longicyathus
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 39 diving areas across 25 countries and 6 regions.
- Coral Sea, Australia - 25 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 109 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 1 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 3 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 4 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 13 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 7 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 59 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 2 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 2 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 33 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 6 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 6 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 1 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 1 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 2 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- North Ari Atoll, Maldives - 1 records
- South Ari Atoll, Maldives - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 3 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 2 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 1 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 1 records
- Kalpitiya & Northwest, Sri Lanka - 2 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 2 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 2 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 1 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 4 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 1 records
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia - 6 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 19 records
- Mabul & Kapalai, Malaysia - 6 records
- Perhentian Islands, Malaysia - 3 records
- Redang Island, Malaysia - 2 records
- Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - 2 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 3 records