Acropora cervicornis

(Lamarck, 1816)

Colony Form: plocoid
Colony Shape: branching, arborescent
Colony Size: branches1-3 cm thick
Corallite Spacing: 2-3 mm
Budding Type: mostly extramural
Corallite Diameter: radial corallites 0.8-1.0 mm
Axial and Radial Corallite Characteristics: well-developed axial corallites; exsert nariform radial corallites often in rows and oriented toward branched tips
Coenosteum Width: moderate
Internal Coenosteum Texture: moderate porosity
Coenosteum Surface: strongly costate with spinules
Relative Septum Thickness: moderate
Lobes: none
Columella Structure: absent
Wall Structure: septothecal
Wall Thickness: 0.2-0.4 mm

(C) AFB.	Specimen details: Image Description: USNM not registered Image view: colony. Locality: : more information required. - Enlarge Image -
(C) AFB.	Specimen details: Image Description: USNM not registered Image view: calice. Locality: : more information required. - Enlarge Image -
(C) AFB.	Specimen details: Image Description: USNM 40675 Image view: colony. Locality: : more information required. - Enlarge Image -
(C) AFB.	Specimen details: Image Description: USNM 40675 Image view: calice. Locality: : more information required. - Enlarge Image -

Early Pliocene, Seroe Domi Formation. Salina St. Michiel, Curacao, south Caribbean.
Early Pliocene - Late Pliocene, Q.Chocolate Formation. Q. Chocolate, Costa Rica, southwest Caribbean.
Early Pliocene - Late Pliocene, Seroe Domi Formation. St. Michiel ridges, Curacao, south Caribbean.
Early Pliocene - Early Pleistocene, Shark's Hole Formation. Isla Colon, Panama, southwest Caribbean.
Late Pliocene, 514-539fbmp Formation. BDP Core Clino, Bahamas, northeast Caribbean.
Late Pliocene, Bowden Formation. Bowden Shell Beds, Jamaica, central Caribbean.
Late Pliocene, Hope Gate Formation. Rio Bueno, Jamaica, central Caribbean.
Late Pliocene, Moin Formation. Pueblo Nuevo, Costa Rica, southwest Caribbean.
Late Pliocene, Q.Chocolate Formation. Buenos Aires, Costa Rica, southwest Caribbean.
Late Pliocene - Early Pleistocene, 'Old Pera' Formation. Old Pera, Jamaica, central Caribbean.
Late Pliocene - Early Pleistocene, 445-484fbmp Formation. BDP Core Clino, Bahamas, northeast Caribbean.
Late Pliocene - Early Pleistocene, High Terrace Formation. Hato, Curacao, south Caribbean.
Late Pliocene - Early Pleistocene, Highest Terrace Formation. Pos di Wanga, Curacao, south Caribbean.
Late Pliocene - Early Pleistocene, Manchioneal Formation. Navy Island, Jamaica, central Caribbean.
Late Pliocene - Early Pleistocene, Moin Formation. Lomas del Mar, Costa Rica, southwest Caribbean.
Late Pliocene - Early Pleistocene, Moin Formation. Portete, Costa Rica, southwest Caribbean.
Late Pliocene - Early Pleistocene, Seroe Domi Formation. St. Michiel seacliff, Curacao, south Caribbean.
Early Pleistocene, 209-259fbmp Formation. BDP Core Unda, Bahamas, northeast Caribbean.
Early Pleistocene, 321-394fbmp Formation. BDP Core Clino, Bahamas, northeast Caribbean.
Early Pleistocene, 394-445fbmp Formation. BDP Core Clino, Bahamas, northeast Caribbean.
Early Pleistocene, Manchioneal Formation. Port Antonio, Jamaica, central Caribbean.
Early Pleistocene, Manchioneal Formation. Port Maria, Jamaica, central Caribbean.
Middle Pleistocene, 86-278fbmp Formation. BDP Core Clino, Bahamas, northeast Caribbean.
Middle Pleistocene, Middle Terrace Formation. Hato, Curacao, south Caribbean.
Middle Pleistocene - Late Pleistocene, Key Largo Formation. Florida Keys, Florida, north Caribbean.
Middle Pleistocene - Late Pleistocene, San Andres Formation. San Andres, San Andres, central Caribbean.
Middle Pleistocene - Late Pleistocene, San.Dom. Terraces Formation. Boca Chica, Dominican Republic, central Caribbean.
Late Pleistocene, Falmouth Formation. Rio Bueno, Jamaica, central Caribbean.

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