Staghorn coral
Acropora millepora
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 41 diving areas across 21 countries and 6 regions.
- Coral Sea, Australia - 36 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 332 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 2 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 27 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 1 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 1 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 3 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 1 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 101 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 1 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 1 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 2 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 2 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 105 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 4 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 9 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 7 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 2 records
- North Ari Atoll, Maldives - 4 records
- North Malé Atoll, Maldives - 6 records
- Rasdhoo Atoll, Maldives - 6 records
- South Ari Atoll, Maldives - 6 records
- South Malé Atoll, Maldives - 6 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 1 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 2 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 16 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 4 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 9 records
- Halmahera, Indonesia - 15 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 6 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 8 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 36 records
- Mabul & Kapalai, Malaysia - 2 records
- Sipadan, Malaysia - 6 records
- Tioman Island, Malaysia - 4 records
- Subic Bay, Philippines - 19 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 41 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 6 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 1 records