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Acropora palmata (Lamarck, 1816) 
AphiaID: 288227

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Acroporidae (Family) > Acropora (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Added by Database Management Team
Rank Species
Parent Acropora Oken, 1815
Sources  basis of record: 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 elkhorn coral  [details]
Environment marine, terrestrial
Distribution Aruba [details]
Belize [details]
Bonaire [details]
Caribbean Sea [details]
Cayman Islands [details]
Colombia [details]
Costa Rica [details]
Cuba [details]
Curaçao [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Hispaniola [details]
Honduras [details]
Jamaica [details]
Mexico [details]
Nicaragua [details]
Panama [details]
Puerto Rico [details]
Venezuela [details]
West Atlantic [details]
Host of  Corallovexia similis Stock, 1975 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Corallovexia similis Stock, 1975 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (63 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (43361 nucleotides; 79 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Note  Biology: zooxanthellate [details]
Images 
Acropora palmata
Acropora palmata
added on 2008-11-07 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: not checked

Acropora palmata
Acropora palmata
added on 2011-11-01 - author: Collection VLIZ
qualitystatus: not checked

Acropora palmata
Acropora palmata
added on 2011-11-01 - author: Collection VLIZ
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:288227
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Acropora palmata (Lamarck, 1816). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=288227 on 2013-05-18
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