Pocillopora grandis

Pocillopora grandis
	with blue damselfish (Pomacentrus pavo); Moorea, French Polynesia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Class:	Hexacorallia
Order:	Scleractinia
Family:	Pocilloporidae
Genus:	Pocillopora
Species:	P. grandis
Binomial name
	Pocillopora grandis; Dana, 1846
Synonyms
	List Pocillopora coronata Gardiner, 1897; Pocillopora elongata Dana, 1846; Pocillopora eydouxi Milne Edwards, 1860; Pocillopora rugosa Gardiner, 1897; Pocillopora symmetrica Thiel, 1932;

Pocillopora grandis, is a colonial species of stony coral in the family Pocilloporidae. It is known commonly as antler coral, and is found in the Indo-West Pacific to the Eastern Tropical Pacific.

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. Further distribution includes: the southwest and northeastern Indian Ocean, the central Indo-Pacific, tropical Australia, southern Japan and the South China Sea, the oceanic West Pacific, the central Pacific, the Hawaiian Islands and Johnston Atoll, the Far Eastern Pacific. In the Eastern Tropical Pacific region it is also found off the coasts of Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Hoeksema, Bert (2017). "Pocillopora grandis Dana, 1846". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
^ IUCNredlist.org

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[WoRMS-1] Hoeksema, Bert (2017). "Pocillopora grandis Dana, 1846". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 14 September 2017.

[2] IUCNredlist.org

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