Endangered
Acropora nasuta
Acropora nasuta
Acropora nasuta is a staghorn coral in the family Acroporidae (order Scleractinia), recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The colour of this coral is creamy-white or pale brown and the branch tips are sometimes bluish.
The branches are tapering and up to 12 mm (0.5 in) wide.
Range and habitat
Acropora nasuta is a common species and is found in the western and central Indo-Pacific. Its range extends from the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the east coast of Africa to India, Malaysia, Japan, Indonesia and Australia. It is native to the western and central Indo-Pacific where it is found in shallow reef habitats.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Besides this, the coral gets nourishment from the polyps that project from the corallites at night and extend their tentacles to feed on plankton.
In crisis
Like other corals of the genus Acropora, it is susceptible to coral bleaching and coral diseases and the IUCN has listed it as being "Endangered".
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Branching acroporids are among the first corals to bleach in a marine heatwave and among the first to smash in a storm or under an anchor.
Acropora nasuta is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Acropora nasuta, Wikidata item Q342821. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
