Acropora kirstyae Hard coral, stony coral

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lexID:: 2160
AphiaID:: 288215

Scientific:: Acropora kirstyae
German:: Kleinpolypige Steinkoralle
English:: Hard Coral, Stony Coral

Category:: Stony Corals SPS
Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Scleractinia (Order) > Acroporidae (Family) > Acropora (Genus) > kirstyae (Species)
Initial determination:: Veron & Wallace, 1984

Occurrence:: Australia, Fiji, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Japan, Kiribati, Malaysia, Marschall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Taiwan, Thailand, The Ryukyu Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna
Sea depth:: 10 - 25 Meter
Size:: up to 7.87" (20 cm)
Temperature:: 75.2 °F - 80.6 °F (24°C - 27°C)
Food:: Plankton, Zooxanthellae / Light
Tank:: 44 gal (~ 200L)
Difficulty:: Not for beginners
Offspring:: Easy to breed

Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown
CITES:: Appendix II ((commercial trade possible after a safety assessment by the exporting country))
Red List:: Vulnerable (VU)

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Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2007-03-04 15:23:10
Last edit:: 2020-02-15 21:34:43

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Acropora kirstyae is easy to breed. There are offspring in the trade available. If you are interested in Acropora kirstyae, please contact us at Your dealer for a progeny instead of a wildcat. You help to protect the natural stocks.

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Characters: Colonies are caespitose thickets, composed of masses of fine branches with frequent sub-branches and incipient axial corallites. Radial corallites are tubular and appressed, except near branch tips and irregular in size and shape. They may have flaring lips near branch tips.

Similar Species: Acropora exquisita, which has thicker branches and more elongate radial corallites.

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