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genus Acropora - coelenterate genus of order Madreporaria, including staghorn corals

Acropora

coelenterate genus - a genus of coelenterates

Madreporaria, order Madreporaria - stony corals

staghorn coral, stag's-horn coral - large branching coral resembling antlers

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It is noted as causing diseases such as the White Pox (WP) that mainly affects corals of the genus Acropora. The disease was first observed and described, in the Florida Keys by Holden (1996).

Bacteria that affects coral health with an emphasis on the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea

Reproduction, recruitment and fragmentation in nine sympatric species of the coral genus Acropora. Mar.

Sedimentation and the reproductive biology of the Hawaiian reef-building coral Montipora capitata

Two females were found among the branches of live coral of the genus Acropora in a sheltered reef at a depth of 2 m.

The first records of four gobies (Pisces: Gobiidae) in the Red Sea

The new species was originally thought to be an elkhorn coral (genus Acropora), a species widely distributed throughout the Caribbean that was informally christened Acropora ginsburgi in 1995.

Scientists identify two new species of extinct corals

1999, Staghorn corais of the world: A revision of the coral genus Acropora. CSIRO publishing, Australia.

Bivalve assemblages on living coral species in the northern Red Sea, Egypt

`However fossil evidence, documented by Brian Rosen at the Natural History Museum in London, has shown that the genus Acropora originated in either northern Africa, Spain, Italy or Yugoslavia, but not Indonesia.'

Branches of evolution

Description of four new species in the hard coral genus Acropora Oken, 1815 (Scleractinia: Astrocoeniina: Acroporidae) from south-east Africa.

Scale-dependent variation in local vs. regional effects on coral species richness

The coral genus Acropora is widespread throughout the tropical Indian, Pacific, and west Atlantic Oceans, where colonies are typically a dominant component of the shallow reef assemblage (Wallace 1978; Veron 1986).

Models of reticulate evolution in the coral genus Acropora based on chromosome numbers: parallels with plants