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Acropora millepora (Staghorn coral)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Acropora millepora is a species of branching stony coral native to the western Indo-Pacific where it is found in shallow water from the east coast of Africa to the coasts of Japan and Australia.
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Attributes

Nocturnal [1]  Yes
Water Biome [1]  Benthic, Reef, Coastal
Diet [1]  Herbivore, Planktivore

Ecosystems

Predators

Chaetodon auriga (Cross-stripe butterfly)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Halofolliculina corallasia <Unverified Name>[3]
Shelter for 
Gobiodon unicolor[4]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Clownfish and their Host Anemones ;; NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program
♦ 3Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
♦ 4INTERSPECIFIC 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. 2177–2189
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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