Acropora, Oken, 1815

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 : 702

ACROPORA NASUTA GROUP

Diagnosis

Species with corymbose colonies. Radial corallites nariform or tubo-nariform, evenly sized or in two sizes that contribute strongly to the diameter of the branches; coenosteum throughout formed of simple spinules arranged on a reticulate structure, in some species the spinules being arranged in rows or coalesced into costae ( Wallace, 1999).

Most of the Recent species occur in the Indo- Pacific, mainly subtidally in shallow habitats less than 10 m depth ( Wallace & Wolstenholme, 1998; Wallace, 1999). Two species are represented in the fossil record A. valida and A. lutkeni , both previously identified as A. duncani in the collections of the Naturalis Biodiversity Center.