Acropora

Acropora nasuta

The Acropora are the most species-rich genus of stony corals ( Scleractinia ). While there are only three species in the Caribbean, and the Acropora to Hawaii missing, are the Australian stony corals specialist Veron alone for 73 species in eastern Australia. The exact number of species throughout the Indo-Pacific is unknown, as there is for the networked evolution of this genus a variety of shapes, whose species status can not be determined.

Features

The polyps of Acropora are only one to three millimeters long. It is characterized by a larger polyp at the end of each branch. The Endpolypen often also have a special coloring and give the usually rather brownish coral colony color. All polyps have six tentacles that they stretch out at night to catch plankton.

In German it is called the Acropora depending on growth form often antler coral and table corals. Like most other stony corals they live in a symbiotic relationship with algae ( zooxanthellae ) that supply the Acropora with nutrients. They are therefore dependent on dark locations. Acropora dominated in many places the reefs and form veritable monoculture. They grow very fast and have an estimated share of 25 % of the Riffbildung. In Barbados we have detected an annual increase of 26 centimeters in Acropora cervicornis. While the flowers animals in shallow water on the reef roofs usually grow bush or antler -shaped, they often form on the reef walls table-shaped sticks and grow to still absorb as much light, horizontally outward.

Species

• Subgenus Isopora Acropora brueggemanni ( Brook, 1893)
• Acropora cuneata ( Dana, 1846)
• Acropora palifera ( Lamarck, 1816)

• Acropora humilis group Acropora humilis ( Dana, 1846)
• Acropora gemmifera ( Brook, 1892)

• Acropora bushyensis Veron & Wallace, 1984
• Acropora glauca ( Brook, 1893)
• Acropora Lovelli Veron & Wallace, 1984
• Acropora verweyi Veron & Wallace, 1984

• Acropora danai ( Milne -Edwards & Haime, 1860)
• Acropora listeri ( Brook, 1893)
• Acropora nobilis ( Dana, 1846)
• Acropora palmerae Wells, 1954
• Acropora Polystoma ( Brook, 1891)
• Acropora robusta ( Dana, 1846)

• Acropora acuminata ( Verrill, 1864)
• Acropora abrolhosensis Veron, 1985
• Acropora formosa ( Dana, 1846)
• Acropora grandis ( Brook, 1892)
• Acropora valenciennesi ( Milne -Edwards & Haime, 1860)

• Acropora austera ( Dana, 1846)
• Acropora horrida ( Dana, 1846)
• Acropora kirstyae Veron & Wallace, 1984
• Acropora microphthalma ( Verrill, 1869)
• Acropora tortuosa ( Dana, 1846)
• Acropora vaughani Wells, 1954

• Acropora aspera ( Dana, 1846)
• Acropora Millepora ( Ehrenberg, 1834)
• Acropora pulchra ( Brook, 1891)

• Acropora dendrum ( Bassett -Smith, 1890)
• Acropora Donei Veron & Wallace, 1984
• Acropora selago ( Studer, 1878)
• Acropora tenuis ( Dana, 1846)
• Acropora yongei Veron & Wallace, 1984

• Acropora Anthocercis ( Brook, 1893)
• Acropora cytherea ( Dana, 1846)
• Acropora hyacinthus ( Dana, 1846)
• Acropora microclados ( Ehrenberg, 1834)
• Acropora paniculata Verrill, 1902
• Acropora spicifera ( Dana, 1846)

• Acropora aculeus ( Dana, 1846)
• Acropora azurea Veron & Wallace, 1984
• Acropora latistella ( Brook, 1892)
• Acropora nana ( Studer, 1878)
• Acropora sabulata ( Dana, 1846)

• Acropora cerealis ( Dana, 1846)
• Acropora lutkeni Crossland, 1952
• Acropora nasuta ( Dana, 1846)
• Acropora secale ( Studer, 1878)
• Acropora valida ( Dana, 1846)

• Acropora clathrata ( Brook, 1891)
• Acropora divaricata ( Dana, 1846)

• Acropora carduus ( Dana, 1846)
• Acropora echinata ( Dana, 1846)
• Acropora elseyi ( Brook, 1892)
• Acropora longicyathus ( Milne -Edwards & Haime, 1860)
• Acropora subglabra ( Brook, 1891)

• Acropora caroliniana Nemenzo, 1976
• Acropora chesterfieldensis Veron & Wallace, 1984
• Acropora granulosa ( Milne -Edwards & Haime, 1860)
• Acropora loripes ( Brook, 1892)
• Acropora willisae Veron & Wallace, 1984

• Acropora florida ( Dana, 1846)
• Acropora sarmentosa ( Brook, 1892)

• Deer antler coral ( Acropora cervicornis ) ( Lamarck, 1816)

• Elchgeweihkoralle (Acropora palmata ) ( Lamarck, 1816)
• Acropora prolifera ( Lamarck, 1816)

• Acropora abrotanoides ( Lamarck )
• Acropora akajimensis Veron, 1990
• Acropora arabensis Hodgson & Carpenter, 1996
• Acropora awi Wallace and Wolstenholme, 1998
• Acropora batunai Wallace, 1997
• Acropora Branchi Riegl, 1995
• Acropora cardenae Wells, 1986
• Acropora echinata ( Dana, 1846)
• Acropora convexa
• Acropora copiosa Nemenzo, 1967
• Acropora crassa ( Milne -Edwards & Haime, 1860)
• Acropora crateriformis ( Gardiner, 1898)
• Acropora cymbicyathus ( Brook )
• Acropora delicatula ( Brook )
• Acropora derawaensis Wallace, 1997
• Acropora desalwii Wallace, 1994
• Acropora digitifera ( Dana, 1846)
• Acropora diversa ( Brook )
• Acropora elegans ( Milne -Edwards & Haime, 1860)
• Acropora eurystoma ( Klunzinger, 1879)
• Acropora exquisita Nemenzo, 1971
• Acropora halmaherae Wallace and Wolstenholme, 1998
• Acropora hemprichii ( Ehrenberg, 1834)
• Acropora hoeksemai Wallace, 1997
• Acropora indiana Wallace, 1994
• Acropora indonesia Wallace, 1997
• Acropora insignis Nemenzo, 1967
• Acropora intermedia ( Brook, 1891)
• Acropora irregularis ( Brook, 1892)
• Acropora jacque linae Wallace, 1994
• Acropora kosurini Wallace, 1994
• Acropora loisetteae Wallace, 1994
• Acropora lokani Wallace, 1994
• Acropora magnifica Nemenzo, 1971
• Acropora mirabilis Quelch, 1886
• Acropora mossambica Riegl, 1995
• Acropora multiacuta Nemenzo, 1967
• Acropora natalensis Riegl, 1995
• Acropora ocellata ( Klunzinger, 1879)
• Acropora parilis Quelch, 1886
• Acropora pharaonis ( Milne -Edwards & Haime, 1860)
• Acropora plumosa Wallace and Wolstenholme, 1998
• Acropora pocilloporina Wallace, 1994
• Acropora pruinosa ( Brook, 1893)
• Acropora rambleri Bassett -Smith, 1890
• Acropora reticulata ( Brook, 1893)
• Acropora rosaria ( Dana, 1846)
• Acropora rudis ( Rehberg, 1892)
• Acropora russelli Wallace, 1994
• Acropora samoensis ( Brook, 1891)
• Acropora schmitti Wells, 1950
• Acropora sekiseiensis Veron, 1990
• Acropora simplex Wallace and Wolstenholme, 1998
• Acropora solitaryensis Veron & Wallace, 1984
• Acropora sordiensis Riegl, 1995
• Acropora splendida Nemonzo
• Acropora squarrosa ( Ehrenberg, 1834)
• Acropora stoddarti Pillai & Scheer, 1976
• Acropora striata ( Verrill, 1866)
• Acropora subulata ( Dana, 1846)
• Acropora suharsonoi Wallace, 1994
• Acropora sukarnoi Wallace, 1997
• Acropora surculosa ( Dana, 1846)
• Acropora tanegashimensis Veron, 1990
• Acropora tenella ( Brook, 1892)
• Acropora teres ( Verrill, 1866)
• Acropora togianensis Wallace, 1997
• Acropora torihalimeda Wallace, 1994
• Acropora tumida Verrill, 1866
• Acropora Turaki Wallace, 1994
• Acropora variabilis ( Klunzinger, 1879)
• Acropora Wallacea Veron, 1990

Aquarium maintenance

Acropora can also be grown in well-kept marine aquariums. You can reach here with good water conditions increases length of 16 inches a year. By fragmentation of larger colonies they can be easily propagated artificially. Meanwhile, there are many coral breeders, multiply the Acropora and try if possible to get colored shapes. Today it is no longer necessary to import from Acropora coral reefs.