WoRMS taxon details
Acropora pharaonis (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1860)
AphiaID: 207059
AphiaID: 207059
| 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 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Acropora pustulosa (Milne Edwards & Haime) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Sheppard, C.R.C. (1987). Coral species of the Indian Ocean and adjacent seas: a synonymised compilation and some regional distribution patterns. Atoll Research Bulletin Nr 307 [details] basis of record: Sheppard, C.R.C. (1998). Corals of the Indian Ocean: a taxonomic and distribution database for coral reef ecologists [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] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | East Africa [details] Indo-Pacific [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Rodriguez [details] Seychelles [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To IUCN Red List To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: zooxanthellate [details] Description: Large, arborescent colonies with a unique shape, reaching 2 m tall and 1 m wide. A single stem, or multiple intertwining stems, rise vertically from the substrate. Repeated branching of the stem gives rise to a mass of branches which flare upwards. Stems of large colonies may exceed 20 cm diameter, and there is a continual, steady tapering of branch diameter from stem to branchlet tips. Coenosteum is rough, and radial calices are tubular. Branch tips are very similar to those from the tabular Acropora cytherea from which it can only be distinguished by colony shape. Acropora pharaonis is most common in sheltered, lagoonal conditions, preferably amongst sand patches (Sheppard, 1998). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207059 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Acropora pharaonis (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1860). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207059 on 2013-05-20 | ||||||||||||||
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