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Acropora

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Noun1.Acropora - coelenterate genus of order Madreporaria, including staghorn coralsAcropora - coelenterate genus of order Madreporaria, including staghorn corals
coelenterate genus - a genus of coelenterates
stag's-horn coral, staghorn coral - large branching coral resembling antlers


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Wounds on Acropora millepora corals appear blue, for example, while injured tissues on Porites species-like the raised and swollen patches seen above-are an "intense" bubble-gum pink.
Mytilidae and Pteriidae have a wide and strong association with some corals (as Stylophora pistillata; Porites solida; Pocillopora verrucosa; Favites abdita; Favites fluxuosa; anal Goniastrea pictinata; Acropora pharonis; Montipora venosa; Acropora humilis, Anacropora spinosa and Montipora spongiosa), whereas Pectinidae, Arcidae, and Tridacnidae have a low coral association.
Corals come in many shapes, sizes and colours including the open-branched stag shorn coral, the pincushion-like acropora coral, the wavy-branched plate-like pavona coral, the massively solid favia coral and the convoluted brain coral.
 
 
 
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