Acropora gemmifera

About this species

Acropora gemmifera is a species of acroporid coral found in the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the central Indo-Pacific, the southwest and northern Indian Ocean, southeastern Asia, Australia, the East China Sea, Japan, the oceanic central and western Pacific Ocean, and northwestern Hawaiʻi. It occurs on exposed upper reef flats and slopes, from depths of 1–15 m. It was described by Brook in 1892.

Text from the Wikipedia article “Acropora gemmifera”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article

Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

Loading the map

Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 39 records
February: 34 records
March: 61 records
April: 76 records
May: 115 records
June: 39 records
July: 55 records
August: 78 records
September: 37 records
October: 101 records
November: 93 records
December: 41 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 2–16 m · Deepest record: 57 m

0–10 m: 117 records
10–20 m: 28 records
20–30 m: 3 records
30–40 m: 0 records
40–50 m: 2 records
50–60 m: 4 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 22–30 °C

22–24 °C: 4 records
24–26 °C: 48 records
26–28 °C: 221 records
28–30 °C: 272 records

Photos

(c) Ashwin Srinivasan, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Luke Lythgoe, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Debra Baker, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Romain Boisseau, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC BY-SA · iNaturalist
(c) Gergely Nigg, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist

Names and classification

Names in 1 more languages

Japanese: オヤユビミドリイシ

Other scientific names: Acropora (Acropora) gemmifera, Acropora (Tylopora) gemmifera, Acropora (Tylopora) scherzeriana, Acropora scherzeriana, Madrepora (Tylopora) australis, Madrepora (Tylopora) gemmifera, Madrepora (Tylopora) scherzeriana, Madrepora australis, Madrepora gemmifera, Madrepora pallida, Madrepora scherzeriana, Madrepora vagabunda

Similar species

Sources and credits

Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).

Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
1,219 open-data records from 1892 to 2012.
Species data updated October 31, 2026.