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    Species Accepted

    Acropora echinata (Dana, 1846)

    Staghorn coral

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      10 results
      Acropora-de-espinhos-falsos Portuguese
      Staghorn coral English
      Violette Geweihkoralle German
      ice fire English
      icefire English
      thorny staghorn coral English
      větevník bodlinatý Czech
      トゲクサビライシ Japanese
      トゲヅツミドリイシ Japanese
      刺刷軸孔珊瑚 Chinese

      Treatments

      2 results

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      38 results
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      Hoffmeister, J.E. (1925). Some corals from America Samoa and the Fiji Islands. Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. 22: 1-90, pls. 1-23.
      Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (1999). Appendix: List of extant stony corals.
      Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
      Pillai CSG, Scheer G (1976) Report on the stony corals from the Maldive Archipelago. Results of the Xarifa Expedition 1957/58. Zoologica, Stuttgart 43 (126): 1-83, pls. 1-32.
      Wallace CC, Done BJ, Muir PR (2012) Revision and catalogue of worldwide staghorn corals Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Museum of Tropical Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature 57: 1-255.
      Pichon, M.; Benzoni, F. (2007). Taxonomic re-appraisal of zooxanthellate Scleractinian Corals in the Maldive Archipelago. Zootaxa. 1441: 21–33.
      Sheppard CRC. (1987). Coral species of the Indian Ocean and adjacent seas: a synonymised compilation and some regional distribution patterns. Atoll Research Bulletin. 307: 1-32.
      Pillai, C. (1967). Studies on Indian corals 5. Preliminary report on new records of hermatypic corals of the suborder Astrocoeniina.
      Sheppard, C.R.C. (1987). [Pichon]

      Citation

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