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• Best, W.G., G. Faure & M. Pichon (1980). Contribution to the knowledge of the stony corals from the Seychelles and Eastern Africa. Rev. Zool. Afr. 94,3: 600 - 627.
• 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
• Crossland C., 1952 . 96. Article:Madreporaria, Hydrocorallinae, Heliopora and Tubipora. Pages:85-257. Journal:Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-29. Abbreviation:Sci. Rep. Great Barrier Reef Exped. Volume: 6. Number:3. Date of publication: 22 October, 1952.
• DeFelice R., Minton D., and Godwin L. S., 2002 . 8, 9, 15, 25, 50. Reference type:Book. Book title:Records of Shallow-Water Marine Invertebrates from French Frigate Shoals, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, with a Note on Noningenous Species: Report to U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Edited by:None. Total pages:78. Publisher:Bishop Museum. City:Honolulu, Hawaii. Date of publication: 2002.
• Fauré, G. (1977). Annotated checklist of the corals in the Mascarene Archipelago, Indian Ocean. Atoll Research Bulletin 203: 1-26
• Fenner D. P., 2005 . 2, 26, 51, 120. Reference type:Book. Book title:Corals of Hawai'i, A Field Guide to the Hard, Black, and Soft Corals of Hawai'i and the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, Including Midway. Edited by:None. Total pages:143. Publisher:Mutual Publishing. City:Honolulu. Date of publication: 2005.
• Grigg R. W., 1981 . 17, 22. Article:*Acropora* in Hawaii. Part 2. Zoogeography. Pages:15-24. Journal:Pacific Science. Abbreviation:Pac. Sci. Volume: 35. Number:1. Date of publication: 1981.
• Grigg R. W., Wells J. W., and Wallace C. C., 1981 . 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Article:*Acropora* in Hawaii. Part 1. History of the scientific record, systematics, and ecology. Pages:1-13. Journal:Pacific Science. Abbreviation:Pac. Sci. Volume: 35. Number:1. Date of publication: 1981.
• Hamilton, H.G.H. & W.H. Brakel (1984). Structure and coral reef Fauna of east african reefs. Bull. Mar. Sci. 34: 248-266
• Kenyon J., 2008 . 572, 573, 574, 575. Article:*Acropora* (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) reproductive synchrony and spawning phenology in the Northern Line Islands, central Pacific, as inferred from size classes of developing oocytes. Pages:569-578. Journal:Pacific Science. Abbreviation:Pac. Sci. Volume: 62. Number:4. Date of publication: 2008.
• Kühlmann D. H. H., 2006 (December 2005) . 61, 69-70, 111. Article:Die Steinkorallensammlung im Naturhistorischen Museum in Rudolstadt (Thüringen) nebst ökologischen Bemerkungen. Pages:37-113. Journal:Rudolstädter Naturhistorische Schriften. Abbreviation:Rudolstädter nat. hist. Schr. Volume: 13. Date of publication: 9 January, 2006 (December 2005).
• 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.
• Maragos J. and Kenyon J., 2005 . 1. Type:Unpublished . Title:Jarvis Island coral data compiled from *Townsend Cromwell* 2000-2002 and *Sette* 2004 surveys. No. of pages:1. Survey:JAR. Date of reference 2005.
• Maragos J., 2004 . 1. Type:Unpublished . Title:Baker Island coral data [Table unnumbered]. No. of pages:. Date of reference 2004.
• Maragos J., Gulko D., Aeby G., and Potts D. C., 2004 . 1. Type:Unpublished . Title:Gardner Pinnacles 2000-3 coral data compiled from *Rapture* 2000 and 2002, and *Sette* 2003 sites [Table 2]. No. of pages:. Date of reference 2004.
• 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.
• Maragos J., Potts D. C., Aeby G., Gulko D., Kenyon J., Siciliano D., and VanRavenswaay D., 2004 . 217, 220. Article:2000-2002 rapid ecological assessment of coral (Anthozoa) on shallow reefs of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Part 1: Species and distribution. Pages:211-230. Journal:Pacific Science. Abbreviation:Pac. Sci. Volume: 58. Number:2. Date of publication: April, 2004.
• Maragos J., Siciliano D., Aeby G., Kenyon J., Gulko D., VanRavenswaay D., and Basch L., 2004 . 1. Type:Unpublished . Title:Laysan Island coral data. No. of pages:1. Survey:LAY. Date of reference 2004.
• Maragos J., Siciliano D., VanRavenswaay D., Aeby G., Kenyon J., Gulko D., and Potts D. C., 2004 . 1. Type:Unpublished . Title:Maro reef coral data compiled from *Townsend Cromwell* 2000 and 2002, *American Islander* 2001, *Rapture* 2000 and 2002, and *Sette* 2003 surveys [Table 9]. No. of pages:. Date of reference 2004.
• Maragos J., VanRavenswaay D., Potts D. C., Siciliano D., Aeby G., Kenyon J., and Gulko D., 2004 . 1. Type:Unpublished . Title:Necker Island coral data compiled from *Rapture* and *Townsend Cromwell* 2000 and 2002, and *Sette* 2003 surveys [Table 4]. No. of pages:. Date of reference 2004.
• Maragos J., VanRavenswaay D., and Gulko D., 2004 . 1. Type:Unpublished . Title:French Frigate Shoals coral data compiled from *Townsend Cromwell* 2000-2, US Fish and Wildlife Service, *Rapture* 2000 and 2002, and 2003 *Sette* surveys [Table 1]. No. of pages:. Date of reference 2004.
• McClanahan, T.R. & J.C. Mutere (1994). Coral and sea urchin assemblage structure and interrelationships in Kenyan reef lagoons
• 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.
• 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
• Sheppard C. R. C., 1985 . 45. Article:Fringing reefs in the southern region, Jeddah to Jizan. Pages:37-58. Journal:Fauna of Saudi Arabia. Abbreviation:Fauna Saudi Arabia. Volume: 7. Date of publication: 1985.
• Sheppard, C.R.C (1987). [Best et al, boshof]
• Sheppard, C.R.C. (1987). [Bouchon 1981, Faure 1977]
• Sheppard, C.R.C. (1998). Corals of the Indian Ocean: a taxonomic and distribution database for coral reef ecologists
• T. Inskipp and S. Ferriss. 2005. Checklist of fish and invertebrates listed in the CITES appendices and in EC Regulation No. 338/97, 7th edition. In UNEP-WCMC (ed.), JNCC Report 379:1-327
• UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms
• Veron J. E. N. and Marsh L. M., 1988 . 25, 56. 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. and Wallace C. C., 1984 . 298-302. Reference type:Book. Book title:Scleractinia of Eastern Australia, part V: Family Acroporidae. Volume:6. Edited by:None. Total pages:484. Publisher:Australian Institute of Marine Science in assoc. with A. Nat'l Univ. Press. City:Canberra, London and New York. Date of publication: 1984.
• Veron J. E. N., 1986 . 130, 172, 173, 174, 175, 188. 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 . 300-301. 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) . 214, 252, 254, 256. 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 . 262-263. 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 cytherea (Dana, 1846). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207095 on 2013-03-02