Pocillopora elegans is a species of colonial stony coral in the family Pocilloporidae.

It is native to tropical and subtropical parts of the western, central and eastern Pacific Ocean.

It is susceptible to bleaching and various coral diseases and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has listed it as a "vulnerable species".

[1] P. elegans forms small clumps of short, thick, mostly erect branches with flattened tips.

Before the 1982–1983 El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) event, it was, along with Pocillopora damicornis, one of the strongest and most vigorous species of reef-building corals in the eastern Pacific, but after the event, it had disappeared from many of its previous locations, although there has since been some recruitment in Costa Rica, Panama and the Galapagos Islands.