Caribbean elkhorn and staghorn corals listed as threatened in the United States
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Acropora palmata and Acropora cervicornis become the first corals listed under the United States Endangered Species Act, after white-band disease removed most of both species across the Caribbean from about 1980. The listing is a marker of how complete the collapse was: these were the two species that had built the shallow Caribbean reef, in that zone, for thousands of years.
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- Elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata)concerns
- Florida Reef Tractconcerns
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