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Acropora palmata   (Lamarck, 1816)

Elkhorn coral

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Acropora palmata


Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba country information

Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Known from Bonaire and St. Eustatius (Ref. 128342). C: Ref. 128342.
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Hoeksema, B.W. and J.E. García-Hernández, 2022
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Common names from other countries

Classification / Names / Names Nomi Comuni | Sinonimi | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS

> Scleractinia (Stony corals) > Acroporidae ()

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecologia

Associati a barriera corallina; distribuzione batimetrica 0 - 30 m (Ref. 83917).   Tropical; 28°N - 9°N, 98°W - 60°W (Ref. 846)

Distribuzione Stati | Aree FAO | Ecosystems | Presenze | Introduzioni

Western Atlantic.

Length at first maturity / Size / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm

Short description Morfologia

Species forms the largest colonies of all Acropora, with parallel, obliquely inclined, very thick, tapered branches. Corallites are tubular and irregular in length. Axial corallites are indistinct. Color can either be tan or pale brown with white axial corallites.

Biologia     Glossario (es. epibenthic)

Maximum depth from Ref. 116012.

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve

Hermaphroditic (Ref. 113712). Mature gametes are shed into the coelenteron and spawned through the mouth. Life cycle: The zygote develops into a planktonic planula larva. Metamorphosis begins with early morphogenesis of tentacles, septa and pharynx before larval settlement on the aboral end (Ref. 833).

Main reference Bibliografia | Coordinatore | Collaboratori

Wallace, C.C. 1999. (Ref. 86439)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)

  Critically Endangered (CR) ; Date assessed: 01 June 2021

CITES status (Ref. 108899)


CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Human uses


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Nomi Comuni
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Abbondanza

Fonti Internet

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, ricerca) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 26.5 - 28.2, mean 27.5 (based on 464 cells).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.