Acropora loripes is a scleractinian coral (family Acroporidae) distributed across the central and western Indo-Pacific, displaying a corymbose to tabular growth habit with characteristic lobed or rounded branch tips on upper reef slopes and crests. The species depends on Symbiodiniaceae photosymbiosis for the bulk of its energy requirements. Ongoing climate change represents a primary threat to this and other reef-building corals. Genomic data have been generated for this species and are available in public databases, enabling comparative studies of cnidarian evolution and ecology.