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
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2012-06-30
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Acropora elseyi
(Brook, 1892)
(
Fig. 31
)
Madrepora elseyi
Brook, 1892: 456
; 1893: 172, pl. 11 figs E–F.
Madrepora exilis
Brook, 1892: 457
; 1893: 172, pl. 10 figs C–D.
Acropora profusa
Nemenzo, 1967: 75
, pl. 24 fig. 3.
Type locality.
Australia (Torres Strait) (lectotype NHM).
MTQ Holdings. Red Sea:
G54727, G54747, G54856, G62967–68 Yemen;
Socotra:
G57399, G57410–11, G58523–24;
Mayotte:
G63346;
Seychelles:
G47954;
Mauritius:
G55570, G51872;
Maldives:
G52013, G59810, G59855–56, G59934–38, G59987, G60332, G60370;
Thailand:
G32782, G55962–71, G56080, G56139, G56451– 53, G59430;
Malaysia
: G52615, G57660, G57672 mainland and islands; G40026, G41132, G53922–23 Sabah;
Indonesia:
G51644, G53771–72, G59072 Sumatra; G49918, G50504, G59045 Bali; G50986–87 Nusa Tenggara; G50502–0 3, G53773 Alor; G47837 Lombok; G50594, G59075–76 Flores; G50506–10, G53774 Kalimantan; G35511, G35811, G47835–36, G49915–17, G50501, G50505, G51643, G53770, G55456–57, G59090, G59384 Sulawesi; G51638–42 Halmahera; G47833–34, G48162–65 Banda Sea; G60988, G60993–94, G61005– 0 6 Irian Jaya;
Australia:
G27031–33, G27069, G27100, G27985–89, G27991, G27993–96, G28318–24, G28326–30, G28332–38, G28373–75, G28377, G28379–83, G28386–87, G28389, G28490, G29536, G29538–44, G29546–48, G29550–52, G29554–58, G30219–24, G30226–28, G30230– 31, G30397–406, G32461, G35016, G35021, G35023, G35129–33, G37364–65, G37394–95, G39772, G40903, G40910, G49993, G57018–19, G57512, G57520, G57734, G57893, G57991, G57996, G58057, G58176, G58288–89, G58301, G58372, G58389, G58400, G58528, G60603, G64675 Great Barrier Reef; G28385, G29549, G30225,
G57619, G57622, G57642 Coral Sea;
South China Sea:
G52277;
Japan:
G47759;
Taiwan:
G45833;
Philippines:
G41553–55, G41711;
Palau:
G56892, G56908–09;
Papua New Guinea
: G35618, G35900–02, G53289–06, G53562, G53717, G54658–59;
Micronesia:
G59264, G59652, G62510 Pohnpei;
Solomon Is.:
G58579, G58597, G58994;
New Caledonia:
G34957–58, G54686, G58700, G58711, G61034–35, G61197–98;
Chesterfield Atoll:
G27990, G27992, G58924;
Marshall Is.:
G56214–15;
Fiji:
G33314, G34812–13;
Johnston Atoll:
G40988;
Cook Is.:
G35697, G35718, G35728, G35940, G55528–35.
Species group:
echinata
.
Description.
Colony outline:
indeterminate, predominantly hispidose.
Branches:
tertiary branching order present; length: 25–50 mm; diameter: 5.0–9.9 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete; radial crowding: not touching; axial/ radial ratio: <1:10.
Axial corallites:
two synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 0.9–2.3 mm; inner diameter 0.6–0.9 mm; primary septa to 2/3 R.
Radial corallites:
medium; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: appressed tubular; openings: ovalrounded; primary septa to ¼ R.
Coenosteum:
same on and between radials: open spinules; spinule shape: elaborate.
Further literature.
Nishihira & Veron (1995), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Pillay
et al.
(2002), Dai & Horng (2009), Turak & DeVantier (2011).