Acropora

Santodomingo, Nadiezhda, Wallace, Carden C. & Johnson, Kenneth G., 2015, Fossils reveal a high diversity of the staghorn coral genera Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Neogene of Indonesia, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 175 (4), pp. 677-763 : 726

ACROPORA LATISTELLA GROUP

Diagnosis

Colonies corymbose with slender branches; radial and axial contribute equally to branch diameter; radial corallites appressed tubular with round calices, evenly sized and evenly distributed ( Wallace, 1999).

Extant species occur over a broad range of depths and habitats ( Wallace, 1999). Only one species, A. lavandulina , is known from the fossil record of Europe ( Wallace & Bosellini, 2014), although it is also recorded in the Oligocene fossil record of Indonesia ( von Fritsch, 1878). They represent the earliest occurrence of the genus Acropora in the Indo-Pacific region.