Photo of Animalia: species: Acropora hyacinthus (Gaia Guide)

Photo of Animalia: species: Acropora hyacinthus

Acropora hyacinthus is a favourite food of Crown-of-thorns starfish. This colony at North Direction Island in 2009 is about 1 metre across and bears numerous recent feeding scars.
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