Staghorn coral
Acropora verweyi
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 28 diving areas across 20 countries and 5 regions.
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 1 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 3 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 1 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 18 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 1 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 3 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 7 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 25 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 13 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 5 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 7 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 6 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 1 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 1 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 2 records
- North Ari Atoll, Maldives - 1 records
- South Ari Atoll, Maldives - 1 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 8 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 2 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 - 1 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 3 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 1 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 3 records