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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10.5281/zenodo.2163512
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Acropora jacquelineae
Wallace, 1994
(
Fig. 47
)
Acropora jacquelineae
Wallace, 1994: 970
, figs 9, 10.
Type locality.
Huon Gulf, Papua New Guinea.
MTQ Holdings.
HOLOTYPE G35631, PARATYPE G39734, Papua New Guinea;
Indonesia:
G48488 Flores; G48810–20, G50553–54, G51778, G55411–14 Sulawesi; G51739–41, G52411 Halmahera; G60739–42 Irian Jaya;
Papua New Guinea
: G52978–98, G53441, G59108–09, G59705;
Micronesia:
G62515 Pohnpei;
Solomon Is.:
G57915, G58590.
Species group:
loripes
.
Description.
Colony outline:
indeterminate, predominantly plate.
Branches:
tertiary branching order absent; length: <25 mm; diameter: 2.5–4.9 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete; radial crowding: not touching; axial/radial ratio: <1:10.
Axial corallites:
two synapticular rings; porous; outer diameter 0.7–1.2 mm; inner diameter 0.1–0.5 mm; primary septa to ½ R.
Radial corallites:
medium; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: appressed tubular; openings: oval-rounded; primary septa absent.
Coenosteum:
same on and between radials: open spinules; spinule shape: blunt irregular.
Further literature.
Wallace (1997, 1999), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Veron (2000).