Revision and catalogue of worldwide staghorn corals Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Museum of Tropical Queensland
Author
Wallace, Carden C.
Author
Done, Barbara J.
Author
Muir, Paul R.
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Memoirs of the Queensland Museu Nature
2012
2012-06-30
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Acropora monticulosa
(Br
ü
ggemann, 1879)
(
Fig. 63
)
Madrepora monticulosa
Brüggemann, 1879: 576
.
Type locality.
Rodriguez (lectotype MHN).
MTQ Holdings. Seychelles:
G47908;
Mauritius:
G51847;
Maldives:
G59777;
Thailand:
G55982;
Indonesia:
G34173, G47308–16, G49010 Sulawesi; G51580–82 Molucca Sea;
Australia:
G38367 West; G27383–86, G27388–89, G27391–95, G27397–400, G27404, G27413, G27421, G27424, G30235, G33003–04, G51300, G56371, G56807, G63900–01 Great Barrier Reef; G33465, G33515, G63807 Coral Sea;
Japan:
G47786;
Taiwan
: G56701–02;
Palau:
G56862;
Guam:
G40738–39, G40741, G49045–46, G53630, G63329;
Papua New Guinea
: G35909;
Micronesia:
G41168 Yap; G59293, G62413 Pohnpei; G62752, G62761–62, G62782–83 Kosrae;
Solomon Is.:
G56703–05;
New Caledonia:
G61047;
Chesterfield Atoll:
G27387, G27396;
Samoa:
G34818, G34879, G56034;
Niue:
G36104, G36106, G39529, G54679;
Cook Is.:
G35699, G35849, G35857, G35927, G35946, G36111, G36114, G39524–25;
French Polynesia:
G35546–48, G58661;
Tahiti:
G54690–91;
Pitcairn Is.:
G35751, G49039.
Species group:
humilis
.
Description.
Colony outline:
determinate, predominantly corymbose.
Branches:
tertiary branching order absent; length: 2 5–50 mm; diameter:>19.9 mm, axial-dominated, tapering; radial crowding: some touching; axial/ radial ratio:>1:10.
Axial corallites:
three synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 1.4–3.8 mm; inner diameter 0.6–1.2 mm; primary septa to ¾ R.
Radial corallites:
medium; three synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: tubular; openings: ovalrounded; primary septa to ½ R.
Coenosteum:
different on and between radials: between radials: reticulate, on radials: reticulo-costate; spinule shape: elaborate.
Further literature.
Nishihira & Veron (1995), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Pillay
et al.
(2002), Wolstenholme
et al.
2003, Turak & DeVantier (2011).