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References

• Cairns S. D., Hoeksema B. W., and van der Land J., 1999 . 14. Article:Appendix: List of extant stony corals. Pages:13-46. Journal:Atoll Research Bulletin. Abbreviation:Atoll Res. Bull. Volume: . Number:459. Date of publication: 1999.
• Cairns, Stephen D. 1999. Species richness of recent Scleractinia. Atoll Research Bulletin, no. 59. 1-46
• Faustino L. A., 1927 . 41, 269-270. Reference type:Book. Book title:Recent Madreporaria of the Philippine Islands. Edited by:None. Total pages:310. Publisher:Monographs of the Bureau of Science . City:. Date of publication: 15 June, 1927.
• Hamilton, H.G.H. & W.H. Brakel (1984). Structure and coral reef Fauna of east african reefs. Bull. Mar. Sci. 34: 248-266
• Land J. van der (ed) (†) (2013). URMO: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (version Nov 2008). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 11th March 2013 (Roskov Y., Kunze T., Paglinawan L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Culham A., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Hernandez F., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col/. Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• Lemmens, J.W.T.J. (1993). Reef-building corals (Cnidaria: Scleractinia) from the Watamu Marine National Reserve, Kenya; an annotated species list. Zoologische mededelingen 67, 453-465
• Maragos J. and Kenyon J., 2005 . 1. Type:Unpublished . Title:Kingman Reef coral data compiled from *Townsend Cromwell* 2000-2002 and *Sette* 2004 surveys. No. of pages:3. Survey:KIN. Date of reference 2005.
• Maragos J., Molina M., and Kenyon J., 2004 . . Type:Unpublished . Title:Palmyra Atoll coral data compiled from *Townsend Cromwell* 2000-2002, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2000-2001, and *Sette* 2004 surveys [Table 8]. No. of pages:. Date of reference 2004.
• Nemenzo F., 1967 . 5, 114-115, 204, Pl. Article:Systematic studies on Philippine shallow-water scleractinians: VI. Suborder Astrocoeniida (*Montipora* and *Acropora*). Pages:1-223. Journal:Natural and Applied Science Bulletin. Abbreviation:Nat. Appl. Sci. Bull. Volume: 20. Number:1 & 2. Date of publication: 1967. Comments:Part I is text, Part II is figures.
• Pichon M. and Benzoni F., 2007 . 27. Article:Taxonomic re-appraisal of zooxanthellate scleractinian corals in the Maldive Archipelago. Pages:21-33. Journal:Zootaxa. Abbreviation:Zootaxa. Volume: 1441. Date of publication: 5 Apr., 2007.
• Randall R. H., 2003 . 127. Article:An annotated checklist of hydrozoan and scleractinian corals collected from Guam and other Mariana Islands. Pages:121-137. Journal:Micronesica. Abbreviation:Micronesica. Volume: 35-36. Date of publication: June, 2003.
• Riegl, B. (1995). A revision of the hard coral genus Acropora Oken, 1815 (Scleractinia: Astrocoeniina: Acroporidae) in south-east Africa. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 113: 249-288
• Schleyer, M.H. (1995). South African coral reef communities. In: Cowan G.I. (ed) Wetlands of South Africa. Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Pretoria.
• Sheppard, C.R.C. (1998). Corals of the Indian Ocean: a taxonomic and distribution database for coral reef ecologists
• UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms
• Veron J. E. N. and Marsh L. M., 1988 . 25, 59. Article:Hermatypic corals of Western Australia: records and annotated species list. Pages:1-136. Journal:Records of the Western Australian Museum (Perth). Abbreviation:Rec. W. Austral. Mus. Volume: . Number:supplement 29. Date of publication: 1988.
• Veron J. E. N., 1986 . 130, 180, 181. Reference type:Book. Book title:Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Edited by:None. Total pages:644. Publisher:University of Hawaii Press. City:Honolulu. Date of publication: 1986.
• Veron J. E. N., 2000 . 356-357. Reference type:Book. Book title:Corals of the World, Volume I: Family Acroporidae. Volume:1. Edited by:None. Total pages:463. Publisher:Australian Institute of Marine Science. City:Townsville. Date of publication: 2000. Comments:type specimes were not fixed for nominal species-groups described in this publication as required by Art. 72.3 of ICZN (Cairns, 2001).
• Veron, J.E.N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers, London.
• Verrill A. E., 1902 (1901) . 212. Article:Notes on corals of the genus Acropora (Madrepora Lam.) with new descriptions and figures of types, and of several new species. Pages:207-266. Journal:Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Sciences. Abbreviation:Trans. Conn. Acad. Sci. Volume: 11. Date of publication: January, 1902 (1901).
• Wallace C. C., 1999 . 278-279. Reference type:Book. Book title:Staghorn Corals of the World: A Revision of the Coral Genus *Acropora*. Edited by:None. Total pages:421. Publisher:CSIRO Publishing. City:Collingwood, Australia. Date of publication: 1999.
• WoRMS (2013). Acropora aculeus (Dana, 1846). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206991 on 2013-03-02