Staghorn coral
Acropora microclados
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 17 countries and 6 regions.
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 61 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 12 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 1 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 1 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 1 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 3 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 6 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 5 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 10 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 3 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 3 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 27 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 6 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 6 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 6 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 2 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 5 records
- Eilat, Israel - 1 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 5 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 1 records
- Halmahera, Indonesia - 27 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 1 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 3 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 29 records
- Mabul & Kapalai, Malaysia - 2 records
- Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - 4 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 1 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 7 records