Acanthastrea hemprichii (Ehrenberg, 1834)

Koch, Theres, Ivkić, Angelina, Jones, Lewis A, Scharnhorst, Victor S, Stix, Constanze M, Auer, Antonia, Schöchtner, Theda, Özer, Gözde, Steinwender, Simon, Wallace Daurella, Joseph & Zuschin, Martin, 2025, Quantifying diversity and growth form distribution of scleractinian corals, in Mangrove Bay, El Qoseir, Egypt, Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 134282-e 134282 : e134282-

Acanthastrea hemprichii (Ehrenberg, 1834)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceRemarks: Observed and photographed on a current-exposed deeper reef slope; occurrenceStatus: present; occurrenceID: F2A16282-729D-505A-AF25-ECEC636A0730; Taxon: scientificNameID: urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:288878; scientificName: Acanthastrea hemprichii ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Anthozoa; taxonRank: Species; Location: continent: Africa; waterBody: Red Sea; country: Egypt; stateProvince: Muhafazah al Bahr al Ahmar; locality: Current-exposed coral reef located on the coastline of Egypt (Mangrove Bay), 29 km south of the coastal city of El Qoseir ; minimumDepthInMeters: 8.5; maximumDepthInMeters: 8.8; verbatimLatitude: N25°52.209′; verbatimLongitude: E034°25.181′; decimalLatitude: 25.87015; decimalLongitude: 34.4196833; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Event: samplingEffort: 3 x 20 m Line Intercept Transects; eventDate: 22-10 - 2023; year: 2023; habitat: current-exposed deeper reef slope; Record Level: institutionCode: UNIVIE; collectionCode: Coral _ Reef-Mangrove _ Bay-Egypt- 2023; basisOfRecord: HumanObservation

Conservation status

Vulnerable

Notes

Fig. 28 .

Figures

Figure 28. The growth form and appearance of Acanthastrea hemprichii in the reef are shown in (A), while (B) provides a close-up of the colony. Photo credits: Victor Sebastian Scharnhorst.