• Samoan youth in traditional clothing.

    National Park of American Samoa

    American Samoa

Checklist of the Corals

Coral reef
Coral reefs at the park waters have great beauty and high biodiversity.
NPS | BRYAN HARRY
 

Click here to use the Checklist of Park Corals. This is the current list of corals recorded at the park and has many illustrations.

The species lists are kept at the Pacific Islands Cooperative Ecosystems Study Unit (PI CESU), University of Hawaii. The National Park Service is an active member of the PI CESU.

At the species lists checklists there is a link to return to the park website at the bottom left footnote.

Did You Know?

A school of convict tang congregate in waters just beyond the reef

Some twenty percent of American Samoa’s nearshore waters lie within the park, and most of the 900 fish species recorded at American Samoa likely occur within the park.