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. text Memoirs of the Queensland Museu Nature 2012 2012-06-30 57 1 258 journal article 28769 10.5281/zenodo.2163512 efa6ed42-a9c8-4eb7-909e-81fb4091b243 0079-8835 2163512 Family ACROPORIDAE Verrill , 190 1 Acropora Oken, 1815 Acropora Oken, 1815: 66 . [validated ICZN 1963 (Boschma 1961; China 1963)] Type locality. Gunung Api I., Banda Is, Indonesia. Type species. Millepora muricata Linnaeus, 1758; neotype MTQ G49167, designated Wallace (1999: 2–5, fig. 3, p. 182) Diagnosis. Acroporidae which are ramose, rarely massive or encrusting, branching with single axial or leading corallites larger than the numerous radial corallites budded from them; radial corallites variously differentiated in shape; coenosteum light, reticulate, spinose, costate or pseudocostate; columella and dissepiments absent. Paleocene to Recent . Further literature. Verrill (1901), Wells (1936), Wallace (1978), Veron & Wallace (1984), Veron (2000).