TARGET SUBSTRATA
OVERVIEW
CORALS AND THEIR RELATIVES STONY HEXACORALS OTHER HEXACORALS OCTOCORALS HYDROZOANS Acropora Sea Anemones Soft Corals Fire Coral Non-Acropora Zoanthids Sea Fans Lace Coral Black Coral Blue Coral Hydroids Corallimorpharians Organ Pipe OTHER SUBSTRATA Sponge Macroalgae Dead Coral Rock Coralline Algae Dead Coral With Algae Rubble Algal Assemblage Turf Algae Sand Silt
CORALS AND THEIR RELATIVES STONY CORALS ACROPORA
Phylum Cnidaria | Class Anthozoa | Sub-Class Hexacorallia | Order Scleractinia (Hard Corals) | Family Acroporidae | Genus Acropora Acropora is one genus within the family of Acroporidae; Generally, the species are characterized by the presence of an axial (terminal) corallite (skeleton of an individual polyp) at the branch tips surrounded by radial corallites; The name Acropora is derived from the Greek “akron” which means summit.
Acropora Branching
Barefoot Conservation | TARGET SUBSTRATA | July 2016 1 Acropora Bottlebrush
Acropora Digitate
Acropora Tabulate
Barefoot Conservation | TARGET SUBSTRATA | July 2016 2 Acropora Submassive
Acropora Encrusting
Non-Acropora
Phylum Cnidaria | Class Anthozoa | Sub-Class Hexacorallia | Order Scleractinia (Hard Corals) | Family Acroporidae
Coral Branching
Barefoot Conservation | TARGET SUBSTRATA | July 2016 3 (continued)
Coral Branching
Coral Massive
Barefoot Conservation | TARGET SUBSTRATA | July 2016 4 Coral Encrusting
Coral Foliose
Coral Submassive
Barefoot Conservation | TARGET SUBSTRATA | July 2016 5 (continued)
Coral Submassive
Coral Mushroom
Barefoot Conservation | TARGET SUBSTRATA | July 2016 6 OTHER HEXACORALS Phylum Cnidaria | Class Anthozoa | Sub-Class Hexacorallia
Anemones Order Actiniaria
Black Coral Order Anthipatharia
Zoanthids Order Zoantharia
Barefoot Conservation | TARGET SUBSTRATA | July 2016 7 (continued) Zoanthids
Corallimorpharians
Order Corallimorpharia
OCTOCORALS Phylum Cnidaria | Class Anthozoa | Sub-Class Octocorallia
Soft Corals Order Alcyonacea
Barefoot Conservation | TARGET SUBSTRATA | July 2016 8 (continued) Soft Corals
Sea Fans (Gorgonians) Order Alcyonacea
Blue Coral (Heliopora coelulea) Order Helioporacea
Barefoot Conservation | TARGET SUBSTRATA | July 2016 9 Organ Pipe (Tubipora musica) Order Stolonifera
HYDROZOANS
Phylum Cnidaria | Class Hydrozoa
Fire Coral
Lace Coral
Barefoot Conservation | TARGET SUBSTRATA | July 2016 10 (continued) Lace Coral
Hydroids
OTHER SUBSTRATA
Sponges
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Sponges
Macro Algae
Barefoot Conservation | TARGET SUBSTRATA | July 2016 12 Coralline Algae
Algal Assemblage
Dead Coral
Dead Coral with Algae
Turf Algae
Barefoot Conservation | TARGET SUBSTRATA | July 2016 13 Rock
Rubble
Sand
Silt
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