How many species of coral are there?

Trevor
23/10/2015

PNG is home to over 1500 species of coral reef fishes and at least 514 species of coral.

 

Coral reefs in Papua New Guinea exist along a gradient of human population sizes from the heavily populated Bootless Bay to the remote Bismark archipelago

 

Burke L (2012) Reefs at risk revisited in the coral triangle. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute.

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