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Acropora nasuta (Staghorn coral)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Acropora nasuta is a species of branching stony coral in the family Acroporidae. It is native to the western and central Indo-Pacific where it is found in shallow reef habitats. Like other corals of the genus Acropora, it is susceptible to coral bleaching and coral diseases and the IUCN has listed it as being "Near Threatened".
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Predators

Chaetodon lunula (Red-striped butterfly-fish)[1]
Chaetodon lunulatus (Lineated butterfly-fish)[1]
Oxymonacanthus longirostris (Longnosed filefish)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Halofolliculina corallasia <Unverified Name>[3]
Shelter for 
Gobiodon axillaris (Red-striped Coralgoby)[4]
Gobiodon histrio (Broad-barred goby)[4]
Gobiodon quinquestrigatus (Five-line coral-goby)[4]

External References

Citations

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
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 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