Kingdom Animalia Class Anthozoa Family Pocilloporidae Rank Species | Phylum Cnidaria Order Scleractinia Genus Pocillopora | |
Similar Pocillopora eydouxi, Pocillopora meandrina, Pocillopora verrucosa, Pocilloporidae, Pocillopora damicornis | ||
Fragment collection harvesting coral fragments with chisel and hammer of pocillopora grandis
Pocillopora grandis, is one of fifteen described species in the family Pocilloporidae. It is known commonly as antler coral, and is found in the Indo-West Pacific to the Eastern Tropical Pacific.
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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 of Mexico, Coasta Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador.
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