Acropora: Staghorn Corals : a Getting to Know You and Identification Guide : Indian Ocean, South East Asia, Pacific Ocean"The Staghorn Corals are the foundation of tropical coral reefs; they are the most widespread and common of reef-building orals. They occur in a multitude of shapes, from simple, stumpy fingers through to elegant tables, feathery spirals and giant plates. This book is a pictorial testimony to that incredible range with photographs and descriptions of species along with information on where they are found and how to identify them. "Staghorn Corals" also gives you an insight into the life of these animals with sections describing how they grow and organise their colonies, their bizarre life-cycles and their microscopic features. Written in a non-jargon style, "Staghorn Corals" is a must for divers, snorkellers underwater photographers, students or simply those with an interest in the coral reefs of the world."--Backcover. |
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Acropora species axial polyp Barrier Reef blue tips bottlebrush branch tip showing Caledonia central Indo-Pacific Chagos Archipelago Chesterfield clumps colony shape Colours compound branching Cook coral colony corallites are tubular Dana depth diameter Distribution East African Coast eastern Australia ECHINATA GROUP Distinguishing evenly sized Fiji green GROUP Distinguishing Features Guam Indo-Pacific Red Sea Indo-Pacific Thailand Indonesia Japan Kiribati lagoons low tide mark Malaysia Maldives mark on reef Marshall Mascarene Micronesia nariform non-tapering northern and eastern Pacific Ocean pale brown Papua New Guinea Philippines Pitcairn plates Points of Interest radial corallite shape reef edge reef flats reef slopes reef tops Reefs throughout resembles round openings Samoa sandy slopes Seychelles shallow reef side-attached Singapore skeleton slopes and walls Solomon South China Sea species forms species is found species occurs Staghorn Corals sturdy species submerged reefs subtidally Taiwan tapering branches throughout the Indo-Pacific Tuamotu Arch Tubuai Austral tubular radial corallites Veron & Wallace