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Pocillopora eydouxi

Pocillopora grandis
Antler Coral (Pocillopora eydouxi) - GRB.JPG
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Anthozoa
Order: Scleractinia
Family: Pocilloporidae
Genus: Pocillopora
Species: P. grandis
Dana, 1846
Binomial name
Pocillopora grandis

Pocillopora grandis, is one of fifteen described species in the family Pocilloporidae. It is known commonly as antler coral, and is found in the Indo-West Pacific to the Eastern Tropical Pacific.

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. Further distribution includes: the southwest and northeastern Indian Ocean, the central Indo-Pacific, tropical Australia, southern Japan and the South China Sea, the oceanic West Pacific, the central Pacific, the Hawaiian Islands and Johnston Atoll, the Far Eastern Pacific. In the Eastern Tropical Pacific region it is also found off of Mexico, Coasta Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador.


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