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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Family
ACROPORIDAE Verrill
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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).