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Acropora Oken, 1815

Living colony of type species Acropora muricata. Seychelles
Living colony of type species Acropora muricata. Seychelles

205469 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205469)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Anthozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Hexacorallia (Class)
  6. Scleractinia (Order)
  7. Refertina (Suborder)
  8. Acroporidae (Family)
  9. Acropora (Genus)
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  1. Species Acropora abrotanoides (Lamarck, 1816)
  2. Species Acropora aculeus (Dana, 1846)
  3. Species Acropora acuminata (Verrill, 1864)
  4. Species Acropora anthocercis (Brook, 1893)
  5. Species Acropora aspera (Dana, 1846)
  6. Species Acropora austera (Dana, 1846)
  7. Species Acropora carduus (Dana, 1846)
  8. Species Acropora cerealis (Dana, 1846)
  9. Species Acropora clathrata (Brook, 1891)
  10. Species Acropora cytherea (Dana, 1846)
  11. Species Acropora dendrum (Bassett-Smith, 1890)
  12. Species Acropora digitifera (Dana, 1846)
  13. Species Acropora divaricata (Dana, 1846)
  14. Species Acropora donei Veron & Wallace, 1984
  15. Species Acropora echinata (Dana, 1846) (accepted > unreplaced junior homonym)
  16. Species Acropora elseyi (Brook, 1892)
  17. Species Acropora florida (Dana, 1846)
  18. Species Acropora gemmifera (Brook, 1892)
  19. Species Acropora glauca (Brook, 1893)
  20. Species Acropora grandis (Brook, 1892)
  21. Species Acropora granulosa (Milne Edwards, 1860)
  22. Species Acropora horrida (Dana, 1846)
  23. Species Acropora humilis (Dana, 1846)
  24. Species Acropora hyacinthus (Dana, 1846)
  25. Species Acropora intermedia (Brook, 1891)
  26. Species Acropora latistella (Brook, 1892)
  27. Species Acropora listeri (Brook, 1893)
  28. Species Acropora loripes (Brook, 1892)
  29. Species Acropora lutkeni Crossland, 1952
  30. Species Acropora microphthalma (Verrill, 1869)
  31. Species Acropora millepora (Ehrenberg, 1834)
  32. Species Acropora monticulosa (Brüggemann, 1879)
  33. Species Acropora muricata (Linnaeus, 1758)
  34. Species Acropora nana (Studer, 1879)
  35. Species Acropora nasuta (Dana, 1846)
  36. Species Acropora palmerae Wells, 1954
  37. Species Acropora pruinosa (Brook, 1893)
  38. Species Acropora pulchra (Brook, 1891)
  39. Species Acropora robusta (Dana, 1846)
  40. Species Acropora sarmentosa (Brook, 1892)
  41. Species Acropora secale (Studer, 1878)
  42. Species Acropora selago (Studer, 1879)
  43. Species Acropora solitaryensis Veron & Wallace, 1984
  44. Species Acropora spicifera (Dana, 1846)
  45. Species Acropora subglabra (Brook, 1891)
  46. Species Acropora subulata (Dana, 1846)
  47. Species Acropora tenella (Brook, 1892)
  48. Species Acropora tenuis (Dana, 1846)
  49. Species Acropora tumida (Verrill, 1866)
  50. Species Acropora valenciennesii (Milne Edwards, 1860)
  51. Species Acropora valida (Dana, 1846)
  52. Species Acropora verweyi Veron & Wallace, 1984
  53. Species Acropora yongei Veron & Wallace, 1984
  54. Species Acropora microclados (Ehrenberg, 1834) (uncertain > nomen dubium)
  55. Species Acropora azurea Veron & Wallace, 1984 accepted as Acropora nana (Studer, 1879) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  56. Species Acropora brueggemanni (Brook, 1891) accepted as Isopora brueggemanni (Brook, 1891) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  57. Species Acropora danai (Milne Edwards, 1860) accepted as Acropora abrotanoides (Lamarck, 1816) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  58. Species Acropora formosa (Dana, 1846) accepted as Acropora muricata (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  59. Species Acropora nobilis (Dana, 1846) accepted as Acropora robusta (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  60. Species Acropora palifera (Lamarck, 1816) accepted as Isopora palifera (Lamarck, 1816) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  61. Species Acropora rosaria (Dana, 1846) accepted as Acropora loripes (Brook, 1892) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, ?)
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Oken, L. (1815 - 1816). Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte. Dritter Theil: Zoologie. [Textbook of Natural History. Part Three: Zoology.]. <em>Erste Abtheilung: Fleischlose Thiere,Leipzig: C.H. Reclam & Jena: A. Schmid, [book (3rd vol part one, of 3 vols, including plates atlas of T.1, 1813].</em> xxviii + 842 pp. + xviii, 40 pls. L [copepods 180-184, 357-359, 4 plates]., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.166403 [details] OpenAccess publication
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S.; Samimi-Namin, K. (2026). World List of Scleractinia. Acropora Oken, 1815. Accessed through: Xu, K., An, J., Ding, L., Dong, D., Gao, Y., Huang, Y., Jiang, W., Lei, Y., Li, K., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Lin, G., Lin, M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, W., Liu, X., Lu, D., Ma, Z., Ren, X., Sha, Z., Sun, J., Sun, S., Sun, Z., Tian, L., Wang, D., Wang, J., Wu, X., Xia, B., Xiao, N., Yin, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X., Zhao, E., Zheng, X., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. & Zhou, K. (2026) Chinese Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205469 on 2026-08-03
Xu, K., An, J., Ding, L., Dong, D., Gao, Y., Huang, Y., Jiang, W., Lei, Y., Li, K., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Lin, G., Lin, M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, W., Liu, X., Lu, D., Ma, Z., Ren, X., Sha, Z., Sun, J., Sun, S., Sun, Z., Tian, L., Wang, D., Wang, J., Wu, X., Xia, B., Xiao, N., Yin, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X., Zhao, E., Zheng, X., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. & Zhou, K. (2026). Chinese Register of Marine Species. Acropora Oken, 1815. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205469 on 2026-08-03
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1997-02-03 14:17:27Z
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Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-28 07:24:50Z
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Garcia, Maria
2008-10-04 18:36:46Z
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Vanden Berghe, Edward
2013-09-02 08:00:17Z
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Hoeksema, Bert
2013-09-15 20:51:10Z
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Hoeksema, Bert
2014-04-13 21:57:04Z
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Hoeksema, Bert
2018-12-31 09:47:43Z
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Hoeksema, Bert
2022-05-09 11:43:50Z
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Hoeksema, Bert

original description Oken, L. (1815 - 1816). Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte. Dritter Theil: Zoologie. [Textbook of Natural History. Part Three: Zoology.]. <em>Erste Abtheilung: Fleischlose Thiere,Leipzig: C.H. Reclam & Jena: A. Schmid, [book (3rd vol part one, of 3 vols, including plates atlas of T.1, 1813].</em> xxviii + 842 pp. + xviii, 40 pls. L [copepods 180-184, 357-359, 4 plates]., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.166403 [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [details] 

additional source Riegl, B. (1995). A revision of the hard coral genus Acropora Oken, 1815 (Scleractinia: Astrocoeniina: Acroporidae) in south-east Africa. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 113: 249-288, available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1995.tb00935.x [details] 

additional source Dawson EW. (1992). The Coelenterata of the New Zealand region: a handlist for curators, students and ecologists. <em>Occasional papers of the Hutton Foundation, New Zealand.</em> 1: 1-68.
page(s): 47 [details] 

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 Randall RH. (2003). An annotated checklist of hydrozoan and scleractinian corals collected from Guam and other Mariana Islands. <em>Micronesica.</em> 35-36: 121-137.
page(s): 124, 129 [details] 

additional source Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia.</em> [details] 

additional source Wells JW. (1936). The nomenclature and type species of some genera of recent and fossil corals. <em>American Journal of Science.</em> 31: 97-134., available online at https://ajsonline.org/article/61464 [details] 

additional source Yabe H, Sugiyama T. (1935). Revised list of the reef-corals from the Japanese seas and of the fossil reef corals of the raised reefs and the Ryukyu limestone of Japan. <em>Journal of the Geological Society of Japan.</em> 42: 379-403., available online at https://doi.org/10.5575/geosoc.42.379
page(s): 383, 385, 387, 389, 400 [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 Sheppard, C. R. C. (1985). Fringing reefs in the southern region, Jeddah to Jizan. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 7, 37-58
page(s): 45 [details] 

additional source Sheppard, C. R. C.; Sheppard, A. L. S. (1985). The central Red Sea at Yanbu al Sinaiyah. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 7, 17-36
page(s): 30 [details] 

additional source Reimer, J. D.; Takishita, K.; Ono, S.; Maruyama, T.; Tsukahara, J. (2006). Latitudinal and intracolony ITS-rDNA sequence variation in the symbiotic dinoflagellate genus Symbiodinium (Dinophyceae) in Zoanthus sansibaricus (Anthozoa:Hexacorallia). Phycological Research, 54, 122-132, available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1835.2006.00419.x
page(s): 125 [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): 571, 572, 573, 575, 576 [details] 

additional source Reimer, J. D.; Takishita, K.; Ono, S.; Maruyama, T. (2007). Diversity and evolution in the zoanthid genus Palythoa (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia) based on nuclear ITS-rDNA. Coral Reefs, 26, 399-410, available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-007-0210-5
page(s): 405 [details] 

additional source Grigg, R. W. (1981). Acropora in Hawaii. Part 2. Zoogeography. Pacific Science, 35(1): 15-24
page(s): 15 [details] 

additional source Tkachenko, K. S.; Wu, B. J.; Fang, L. S.; Fan, T. Y. (2007). Dynamics of a coral reef community after mass mortality of branching Acropora corals and an outbreak of anemones. Marine Biology, 151, 185-194
page(s): 186 [details] 

additional source Santodomingo N, Wallace CC, Johnson KG. (2015). Fossils reveal a high diversity of the staghorn coral genera Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Neogene of Indonesia. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 175: 677-763., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12295 [details] 

additional source Wallace CC, Bosellini FR. (2015). Acropora (Scleractinia) from the Oligocene and Miocene of Europe: species longevity, origination and turnover following the Eocene–Oligocene transition. <em>Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.</em> 13(6): 447-469., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2014.930525 [details] 

additional source Wallace CC. (2008). New species and records from the Eocene of England and France support early diversification of the coral genus Acropora. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 82(2): 313-328., available online at https://doi.org/10.1666/06-091.1 [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, 63 [details] 

status source ICZN. (1963). Opinion 674: Acropora Oken,1815 (Anthozoa, Madreporaria): validated under the plenary powers. <em>Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 20: 329-330. [details] 

status source Boschma H (1961) Acropora Oken, 1815 (Anthozoa, Madreporaria); proposed validation under the plenary powers. Z.N.(S.) 1036. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 18: 334-335. [details] 
 
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