Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Madrepora damicornis (Linnaeus, 1758), Millepora damicornis Linnaeus, 1758, Pocillopora cespitosa f. laysanensis Vaughan, 1907, Pocillopora cespitosa f. stylophoroides Vaughan, 1907, Pocillopora cespitosa f. tumida Vaughan, 1907, Pocillopora damicornis caespitosa Dana, 1846, Pocillopora damicornis var. caespitosa Dana, 1846, Pocillopora damicornis var. cespitosa Dana, 1846, Pocillopora diomedeae Vaughan, 1906, Pocillopora lacera Verrill, 1869 (Horton et al., 2021); Pocillopora brevicornis Lamarck, 1816, Pocillopora bulbosa Ehrenberg, 1834, Pocillopora caespitosa Dana, 1846, Pocillopora favosa Ehrenburg

Origin: Native

IUCN Red List Category: Not evaluated

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: Found throughout the Indo-Pacific, and from the Gulf of California, Panama, Colombia, Easter, Hawaii, Line, Marquesas, Tuamotus, Pitcairn-Ducie, Tahiti, and Ecuador, including Galapagos Islands, Central America, Eastern, Hawaii, Line, Marqueza, Tuamotus, Pitcairn-Ducie, Tahiti.

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