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National Park of American Samoa
Checklist of the Corals
 
Coral reef
NPS photo by Bryan Harry.
Coral reefs at the park waters have great beauty and high biodiversity.
 

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.

E-mail us with corrections or comments. 

sea slug
Marine Invertebrates,
illustrated list
more...
 Lined tang button
Fish Inventory
Lots of pictures of our local fishes
more...
Thespesia
Plant Inventory
Checklist of higher plants with some illustrations
more...
noddy tern
Natural History Guide to the Park
The on-line version of our latest book
more...
Pacific golden plover in breeding plumage—soon to be flying 5,500 miles to the Alaskan Arctic  

Did You Know?
During northern summers, three shorebirds--plover, turnstone, and tattler--nest in Alaska and northern Canada. After nesting, they fly non-stop over 3,000 miles of open ocean to Hawaii. After briefly resting there, they fly more thousands of miles to Samoa. The round-trip is 11,000 miles.

Last Updated: November 19, 2009 at 19:49 EST