Staghorn coral
Acropora polystoma
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 34 diving areas across 24 countries and 5 regions.
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 1 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 4 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 4 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 3 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 1 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 6 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 3 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 11 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 1 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 17 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 10 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 8 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 2 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 1 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- North Ari Atoll, Maldives - 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 - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 1 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 2 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 3 records
- Yanbu, Saudi Arabia - 2 records
- Port Sudan & Sanganeb, Sudan - 3 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 4 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 6 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 2 records
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia - 3 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 22 records
- Perhentian Islands, Malaysia - 6 records
- Redang Island, Malaysia - 5 records
- Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - 2 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 1 records