Acropora tenuis
Acropora tenuis is a species of acroporid coral found in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the southwest, northwest and northern Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf, the central Indo-Pacific, Australia, Southeast Asia, Japan, the East China Sea and the oceanic west and central Pacific Ocean. It occurs in tropical shallow reefs on upper slopes and in subtidal habitats, at depths of 8 to 20 metres.
MDC Seamarc Maldives · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcroporaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Acroporidae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Acroporidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Acropora tenuis on record, most of them in the Holocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
4 occurrences- Holocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Acropora tenuis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Acropora tenuis and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Acropora tenuis and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
91 taxa- Acropora abrotanoides3 sites
- Goniastrea retiformis3 sites
- Leptoria phrygia3 sites
- Acropora digitifera2 sites
- Acropora hyacinthus2 sites
- Acropora monticulosa2 sites
- Acropora robusta2 sites
- Astrea curta2 sites
- Cyphastrea microphthalma2 sites
- Dipsastraea pallida2 sites
- Echinopora gemmacea2 sites
- Goniastrea pectinata2 sites
- Goniastrea stelligera2 sites
- Leptastrea transversa2 sites
- Millepora platyphylla2 sites
- Montipora2 sites
- Platygyra daedalea2 sites
- Platygyra pini2 sites
- Pocillopora eydouxi2 sites
- Pocillopora verrucosa2 sites
- Porites2 sites
- Porites lutea2 sites
- Acanthastrea echinata1 site
- Acropora humilis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Acropora tenuis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
4 references- Late glacial to post glacial sea levels in the western Indian Ocean1
- Model of fringing reef development in response to progressive sea level fall over the last 7000 years (Kikai-jima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan)1
- Holocene sea level changes and reef development in the southwestern Indian Ocean1
- Community structure and petrography of an emergent Holocene reef limestone on Guam1
Each of the 4 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Acropora tenuis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- MDC Seamarc Maldives
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Acropora tenuis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAcropora through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dana 1846)