Acropora hyacinthus

*Acropora hyacinthus*
Taxonomical systematics
	Scientific name	Acropora (Acropora) hyacinthus
	Common names	Acropora,
	Subgenus	Acropora Oken, 1815
	Genus	Acropora Oken, 1815
	Family	Acroporidae Verrill, 1902
	Suborder	Astrocoeniina Vaughan and Wells, 1943
	Order	Scleractinia
	Subclass	Zoantharia
	Class	Anthozoa
	Phylum	Cnidaria

Local ecology
	Distribution	Oceania, Tropical Western Pacific Ocean, Great Barrier Reef, Tropical Eastern Indian Ocean, Northern and Western Indian Ocean, Red Sea.
	Habitat	Reef flats and subtidal (Wallace, 1999)

Biological characteristics
	Description	Colour may be brown, blue or green. Sometimes has blue or pink edges (Wallace, 1999). Some colonies in the Coral Sea are pink with blue tips (pers. obs.)
		Zooxanthellate
		Hermatypic

	*A colony of A. hyacinthus* off the northern end of Osprey Reef in the Coral Sea.**

Skeletal structure
	Corallum	Tabular. Short branchlets arising vertially from longer horizontal branches. (Wallace, 1999)

References
	Wallace C.C. 1999. Staghorn Corals of the World : A Revision of the Coral Genus Acropora. CSIRO, Collingwood, Australia. 420pp.

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