Deep-Sea taxon details
Acropora tenuis (Dana, 1846)
207105 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207105)
accepted
Species
Madrepora tenuis Dana, 1846 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Madrepora tenuis Dana, 1846) Dana, J.D. (1846 - 1849). Zoophytes. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842. <em>Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia.</em> 7: 1-740, 61 pls. (1846: 1-740; 1849: atlas pls. 1-61)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18989497, http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/usexex/navigation/ScientificText/USExEx19_08select.cfm [details] 
Note unrecorded (Veron, 1986).
From editor or global species database
Type locality unrecorded (Veron, 1986). [details]
Description Colonies are small plates, sometimes perfectly circular, sometimes semicircles projecting from the side of the reef....
Description Colonies are small plates, sometimes perfectly circular, sometimes semicircles projecting from the side of the reef. Branches are small, regular in diameter and regularly spaced. The radial corallites have flaring lower lips which are conspicuous. Branchlets divide, but do not anastomose. This is a small, sometimes inconspicuous coral, but may be common (Sheppard, 1998).
Colonies are corymbose plates with neat, evenly spaced branches. Radial corallites have wide lower lips giving them a neat rosette-like appearance when viewed from above. Colour: cream or blue. Colours may be bright with distinctively coloured redial corallite lips. Abundance: Common where Acropora diversity is moderate or high, especially upper reef slopes (Veron, 1986). [details]
Colonies are corymbose plates with neat, evenly spaced branches. Radial corallites have wide lower lips giving them a neat rosette-like appearance when viewed from above. Colour: cream or blue. Colours may be bright with distinctively coloured redial corallite lips. Abundance: Common where Acropora diversity is moderate or high, especially upper reef slopes (Veron, 1986). [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Acropora tenuis (Dana, 1846). Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207105 on 2026-06-17
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Acropora tenuis (Dana, 1846). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207105 on 2026-06-17
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Garcia, Maria
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(of Madrepora tenuis Dana, 1846) Dana, J.D. (1846 - 1849). Zoophytes. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842. <em>Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia.</em> 7: 1-740, 61 pls. (1846: 1-740; 1849: atlas pls. 1-61)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18989497, http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/usexex/navigation/ScientificText/USExEx19_08select.cfm [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (1999). Appendix: List of extant stony corals. <em>Atoll Research Bulletin.</em> 459: 13-46.
page(s): 16 [details] Available for editors
additional source Wallace CC. (1999). Staghorn corals of the world: a revision of the coral genus Acropora (Scleractinia; Astrocoeniina; Acroporidae) worldwide, with emphasis on morphology, phylogeny and biogeography. CSIRO, Collingwood (Australia). pp i-xvii, 1-421. [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Reimer JD, Sinniger F, Fujiwara Y, Hirano S, Maruyama T. 2007. Morphological and molecular characterisation of Abyssoanthus nankaiensis, a new family, new genus and new species of deep-sea zoanthid (Anthozoa:Hexacorallia: Zoantharia) from a north-west Pacific methane cold seep
page(s): 257, 260 [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source Wallace CC, Done BJ, Muir PR (2012) Revision and catalogue of worldwide staghorn corals Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Museum of Tropical Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature 57: 1-255., available online at https://doi.org/10.17082/j:2204-1478-56-2.2013-42 [details]
additional source Pichon, M.; Benzoni, F. (2007). Taxonomic re-appraisal of zooxanthellate Scleractinian Corals in the Maldive Archipelago. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1441: 21–33., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1441.1.2
page(s): 28 [details]
additional source Verrill AE. (1902). Notes on corals of the genus Acropora (Madrepora Lam.) with new descriptions and figures of types, and of several new species. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 11: 207-266, pls. 36, 36A-F.
page(s): 219 [details]
additional source Veron JEN, Marsh LM. (1988). Hermatypic corals of Western Australia : records and annotated species list. <em>Records Western Australian Museum Supplement.</em> 29: 1-136., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.60555
page(s): 26, 55 [details]
additional source Randall RH, Myers RF. (1983). The corals. Guide to the Coastal Resources of Guam: Vol. 2. <em>University of Guam Press, Guam, pp. 128.</em> [details]
additional source Wallace CC. (1978). The coral genus Acropora (Scleractinia: Astrocoeniina: Acroporidae) in the central and southern Great Barrier Reef Province. <em>Memoirs of the Queensland Museum.</em> 18(2): 273-319, pls. 43-103. [details]
additional source Veron, J. E. N. (2000). Corals of the World, Volume I: Family Acroporidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville., volume 1, pp. 463.
page(s): 360-361 [details]
additional source Maragos, J. E.; Molina, M.; Kenyon, J. (2004). Palmyra Atoll coral data compiled from Townsend Cromwell 2000-2002, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2000-2001, and Sette 2004 surveys [Table 8]. UNPUBLISHED, UNPUBLISHED [details]
additional source Maragos, J. E.; Kenyon, J. (2004). Rose Atoll coral data compiled from US Fish and Wildlife Service 1994, Townsend Cromwell 2002, and Sette 2004 surveys [Table 10]. UNPUBLISHED, Unpublished
page(s): 1 [details]
additional source Maier, E.; Tollrian, R.; Rinkevich, B.; Nürnberger, B. (2005). Isolation by distance in the scleractinian coral Seriatopora hystrix from the Red Sea. Marine Biology, 147, 1109-1120, available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-005-0013-6
page(s): 1110 [details]
additional source Wells JW. (1954). Recent corals of the Marshall Islands: Bikini and nearby atolls, part 2, oceanography (biologic). <em>U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper.</em> 260(I): 385-486., available online at https://doi.org/10.3133/pp260i
page(s): 391, 420, 423 [details]
additional source Brugler, M. R.; France, S. C. (2007). The complete mitochondrial genome of the black coral Chrysopathes formosa (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Antipatharia) supports classification of antipatharians within the subclass Hexacorallia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 42, 776-788, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2006.08.016
page(s): 778, 781, 782, 783, 784, 785 [details]
additional source Kenyon, J. (2008). Acropora (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) reproductive synchrony and spawning phenology in the Northern Line Islands, central Pacific, as inferred from size classes of developing oocytes. Pacific Science, 62(4): 569-578, available online at https://doi.org/10.2984/1534-6188(2008)62[569:aasrsa]2.0.co;2
page(s): 573, 574, 575, 576 [details]
additional source Kühlmann, D. H. H. (2006). Die Steinkorallensammlung im Naturhistorischen Museum in Rudolstadt (Thüringen) nebst ökologischen Bemerkungen. Rudolstädter Naturhistorische Schriften, 13, 37-113
page(s): 62, 74, 113 [details]
additional source Bridge, T.C.L., Cowman, P.F., Quattrini, A.M., Bonito, V.E., Sinniger, F., Harii, S., Head, C.E.I., Hung, J.Y., Halafihi, T., Rongo, T., Baird, A.H. (2024). A <i>tenuis</i> relationship: traditional taxonomy obscures systematics and biogeography of the '<i>Acropora tenuis</i>' (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) species complex. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 202(1): zlad062., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad062 [details] Available for editors
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (1999). Appendix: List of extant stony corals. <em>Atoll Research Bulletin.</em> 459: 13-46.
page(s): 16 [details] Available for editors
additional source Wallace CC. (1999). Staghorn corals of the world: a revision of the coral genus Acropora (Scleractinia; Astrocoeniina; Acroporidae) worldwide, with emphasis on morphology, phylogeny and biogeography. CSIRO, Collingwood (Australia). pp i-xvii, 1-421. [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Reimer JD, Sinniger F, Fujiwara Y, Hirano S, Maruyama T. 2007. Morphological and molecular characterisation of Abyssoanthus nankaiensis, a new family, new genus and new species of deep-sea zoanthid (Anthozoa:Hexacorallia: Zoantharia) from a north-west Pacific methane cold seep
page(s): 257, 260 [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source Wallace CC, Done BJ, Muir PR (2012) Revision and catalogue of worldwide staghorn corals Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Museum of Tropical Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature 57: 1-255., available online at https://doi.org/10.17082/j:2204-1478-56-2.2013-42 [details]
additional source Pichon, M.; Benzoni, F. (2007). Taxonomic re-appraisal of zooxanthellate Scleractinian Corals in the Maldive Archipelago. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1441: 21–33., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1441.1.2
page(s): 28 [details]
additional source Verrill AE. (1902). Notes on corals of the genus Acropora (Madrepora Lam.) with new descriptions and figures of types, and of several new species. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 11: 207-266, pls. 36, 36A-F.
page(s): 219 [details]
additional source Veron JEN, Marsh LM. (1988). Hermatypic corals of Western Australia : records and annotated species list. <em>Records Western Australian Museum Supplement.</em> 29: 1-136., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.60555
page(s): 26, 55 [details]
additional source Randall RH, Myers RF. (1983). The corals. Guide to the Coastal Resources of Guam: Vol. 2. <em>University of Guam Press, Guam, pp. 128.</em> [details]
additional source Wallace CC. (1978). The coral genus Acropora (Scleractinia: Astrocoeniina: Acroporidae) in the central and southern Great Barrier Reef Province. <em>Memoirs of the Queensland Museum.</em> 18(2): 273-319, pls. 43-103. [details]
additional source Veron, J. E. N. (2000). Corals of the World, Volume I: Family Acroporidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville., volume 1, pp. 463.
page(s): 360-361 [details]
additional source Maragos, J. E.; Molina, M.; Kenyon, J. (2004). Palmyra Atoll coral data compiled from Townsend Cromwell 2000-2002, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2000-2001, and Sette 2004 surveys [Table 8]. UNPUBLISHED, UNPUBLISHED [details]
additional source Maragos, J. E.; Kenyon, J. (2004). Rose Atoll coral data compiled from US Fish and Wildlife Service 1994, Townsend Cromwell 2002, and Sette 2004 surveys [Table 10]. UNPUBLISHED, Unpublished
page(s): 1 [details]
additional source Maier, E.; Tollrian, R.; Rinkevich, B.; Nürnberger, B. (2005). Isolation by distance in the scleractinian coral Seriatopora hystrix from the Red Sea. Marine Biology, 147, 1109-1120, available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-005-0013-6
page(s): 1110 [details]
additional source Wells JW. (1954). Recent corals of the Marshall Islands: Bikini and nearby atolls, part 2, oceanography (biologic). <em>U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper.</em> 260(I): 385-486., available online at https://doi.org/10.3133/pp260i
page(s): 391, 420, 423 [details]
additional source Brugler, M. R.; France, S. C. (2007). The complete mitochondrial genome of the black coral Chrysopathes formosa (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Antipatharia) supports classification of antipatharians within the subclass Hexacorallia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 42, 776-788, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2006.08.016
page(s): 778, 781, 782, 783, 784, 785 [details]
additional source Kenyon, J. (2008). Acropora (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) reproductive synchrony and spawning phenology in the Northern Line Islands, central Pacific, as inferred from size classes of developing oocytes. Pacific Science, 62(4): 569-578, available online at https://doi.org/10.2984/1534-6188(2008)62[569:aasrsa]2.0.co;2
page(s): 573, 574, 575, 576 [details]
additional source Kühlmann, D. H. H. (2006). Die Steinkorallensammlung im Naturhistorischen Museum in Rudolstadt (Thüringen) nebst ökologischen Bemerkungen. Rudolstädter Naturhistorische Schriften, 13, 37-113
page(s): 62, 74, 113 [details]
additional source Bridge, T.C.L., Cowman, P.F., Quattrini, A.M., Bonito, V.E., Sinniger, F., Harii, S., Head, C.E.I., Hung, J.Y., Halafihi, T., Rongo, T., Baird, A.H. (2024). A <i>tenuis</i> relationship: traditional taxonomy obscures systematics and biogeography of the '<i>Acropora tenuis</i>' (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) species complex. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 202(1): zlad062., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad062 [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Nontype (of Madrepora tenuis Dana, 1846) BMNH, geounit Vietnamese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype NMSR 8521, geounit Sudanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype NMSR 8522, geounit Sudanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype NMSR, geounit Yemeni Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 119-88, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 317-84, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 319-84, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 413-84, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 614-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 615-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 616-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 793-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From editor or global species database
Biology zooxanthellate [details]Type locality unrecorded (Veron, 1986). [details]
Unreviewed
Description Colonies are small plates, sometimes perfectly circular, sometimes semicircles projecting from the side of the reef. Branches are small, regular in diameter and regularly spaced. The radial corallites have flaring lower lips which are conspicuous. Branchlets divide, but do not anastomose. This is a small, sometimes inconspicuous coral, but may be common (Sheppard, 1998).Colonies are corymbose plates with neat, evenly spaced branches. Radial corallites have wide lower lips giving them a neat rosette-like appearance when viewed from above. Colour: cream or blue. Colours may be bright with distinctively coloured redial corallite lips. Abundance: Common where Acropora diversity is moderate or high, especially upper reef slopes (Veron, 1986). [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ウスエダミドリイシ | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (12 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Acropora tenuis)
To GenBank (150992 nucleotides; 143 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Endangered)
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ USNM 1138546 topview)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (39 records)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Acropora tenuis)
To GenBank (150992 nucleotides; 143 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Endangered)
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ USNM 1138546 topview)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (39 records)
To ITIS
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