> [!summary]- Classification **Kingdom**:: [Animalia](Animalia.md) **Phylum**:: [Cnidaria](Cnidaria.md) **Subphylum**:: [Anthozoa](Anthozoa.md) **Class**:: [Hexacorallia](Hexacorallia.md) **Subclass**:: **Order**:: [Scleractinia](Scleractinia.md) **Suborder**:: **Superfamily**:: **Family**:: Acroporidae **Subfamily**:: **Genus**:: Acropora **Species**:: ## Photos  *[96 - 2022-11-27 - Middle Garden - Sharm Al Sheikh - Egypt](96%20-%202022-11-27%20-%20Middle%20Garden%20-%20Sharm%20Al%20Sheikh%20-%20Egypt.md) Interesting to see that one seems to be colonized by a kind of [Algae](Algae.md) and maybe a [Porifera (sponges)](Porifera%20(sponges).md)*  *[98 - 2022-11-28 - Thomas Reef - Sharm Al Sheikh - Egypt](98%20-%202022-11-28%20-%20Thomas%20Reef%20-%20Sharm%20Al%20Sheikh%20-%20Egypt.md)*  *[95 - 2022-11-27 - Ras Nasrani - Sharm Al Sheikh - Egypt](95%20-%202022-11-27%20-%20Ras%20Nasrani%20-%20Sharm%20Al%20Sheikh%20-%20Egypt.md)*  *[105 - 2022-12-01 - Ras Za'atar - Sharm Al Sheikh - Egypt](105%20-%202022-12-01%20-%20Ras%20Za'atar%20-%20Sharm%20Al%20Sheikh%20-%20Egypt.md) - thought at first it was a white acropora because of its natural color but it's the white of dead corals*  *[96 - 2022-11-27 - Middle Garden - Sharm Al Sheikh - Egypt](96%20-%202022-11-27%20-%20Middle%20Garden%20-%20Sharm%20Al%20Sheikh%20-%20Egypt.md) - not sure, but really look like an Acropora* ## Notes Difficult to diferentiates species on Acropora, so just puting the photos of genus identified species. Acropora are scleractianans, so it have a hard skeleton. In Egypt, I think that I mostly saw is A. digitifera. ## References - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scleractinia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acropora - https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acropora_digitifera