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Acropora cervicornis (Lamarck, 1816) 
AphiaID: 206989

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Acroporidae (Family) > Acropora (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Edited by Database Management Team
Rank Species
Parent Acropora Oken, 1815
Sources  basis of record: Wallace, C.C., 1999. Staghorn corals of the world: a revision of the coral genus Acropora (Scleractinia; Astrocoeniina; Acroporidae) worldwide, with emphasis on morphology, phylogeny and biogeography. : i-xviii, 1-421. [details]

additional source: S.D.Cairns, B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land, update Oct. 2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Cairns, S.D., W.C. Jaap, and J.C. Lang. 2009. Scleractinia (Cnidaria) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 333–347 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Staghorn coral  [details]
Environment marine, terrestrial
Distribution Mozambique [details]
West Atlantic [details]
Links To GenBank
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To ITIS
Notes  Biology: zooxanthellate [details]

Description: Also distributed in Australia in Kalk (1958).
Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). [details]
Images 
Acropora cervicornis
Acropora cervicornis
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Acropora cervicornis
Acropora cervicornis
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history		 
Date   action   by
1997-01-31 16:37:49Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-13 07:19:12Z  changed  Maria
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  changed  van der Land, Jacob
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2009). Acropora cervicornis (Lamarck, 1816). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206989 on 2010-07-30
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