Acropora suharsonoi
Wallace, 1994
Description: Colonies are thickets or corymbose clumps with branches consisting primarily of extremely long tapered axial corallites. Incipient axial corallites forming branchlets occur at the base of the main axial corallites.
Color: Grey.
Habitat: Lower reef slopes.
Abundance: Uncommon.
Similar Species: Acropora multiacuta. See also A. fastigata.
Source reference: Veron (2000). Taxonomic references: Wallace (1994, 1999).
A spreading colony with elongate axial corallites. Bali, Indonesia Photograph: Roger Steene
Skeletal detail. Axial and incipient axial corallites.
A small colony with elongate axial corallites. Bali, Indonesia Photograph: Gerry Allen