Acropora Oken, 1815

Licuanan, Wilfredo Y. & Capili, Emmi B., 2004, New Records Of Stony Corals From The Philippines Previously Known From Peripheral Areas Of The Indo-Pacific, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (2), pp. 285-288 : 287

Acropora Oken

Remarks. – The genus Acropora is the largest genus of stony corals with 113 species in Wallace, 1999 and 170 species in Veron, 2000. Of Wallace’s 113, 73 species are found in southeast Asia. Only 13 species are found to be endemic to certain areas of the Indo-Pacific while the rest are widespread from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean ( Wallace, 1999). However, the central Indo-Pacific region has the highest diversity of Acropora mainly brought about by the continuing range expansion of the species from both the Indian and Pacific oceans ( Wallace, 1999). Acropra halmaherae was classified by Wallace (1999) under the Acropora horrida group along with seven other species that are usually found in subtidal sheltered habitats.