Animalia > Cnidaria > Anthozoa > Scleractinia > Acroporidae > Acropora > Acropora gemmiferaAcropora gemmifera (Cluster acropora)Synonyms: Acropora humilis scherzeriana; Acropora scherzeriana; Madrepora australis; Madrepora gemmifera; Madrepora pallida; Madrepora scherzeriana; Madrepora scherzeriana var. spongiosa; Madrepora vagabunda Acropora gemmifera is a species of acroporid coral found in the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the central Indo-Pacific, the southwest and northern Indian Ocean, southeastern Asia, Australia, the East China Sea, Japan, the oceanic central and western Pacific Ocean, and northwestern Hawaiʻi. It occurs on exposed upper reef flats and slopes, from depths of 1–15 m. It was described by Brook in 1892. |
Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1DIETARY SELECTION BY CORAL-FEEDING BUTTERFLYFISHES (CHAETODONTIDAE) ON THE GREAT BARRIER REEF, AUSTRALIA, Morgan S. Pratchett, THE RAFFLES BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGY 2007 Supplement No. 14: 171-176 ♦ 2Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19 ♦ 3INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION AND COEXISTENCE IN A GUILD OF CORAL-DWELLING FISHES, PHILIP L. MUNDAY, GEOFFREY P. JONES, AND M. JULIAN CALEY, Ecology, 82(8), 2001, pp. 21772189 |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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