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 awi
Wallace & Wolstenholme, 1998
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Fig. 10
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Acropora awi
Wallace & Wolstenholme, 1998: 332
, fig. 128.
Type locality.
Bangu I., Togian Is., Indonesia.
MTQ Holdings.
HOLOTYPE G50646, PARATYPES G50647–53 Indonesia;
Indonesia:
G47736 Lombok; G47730–35, G51730, G55425 Sulawesi; G51731–38, G51919, G63157 Halmahera; G57114–15 Banda Sea; G50644–45 West Timor; G60770–71, G61229 Irian Jaya;
Palau:
G56850, G56860;
Papua New Guinea
: G53318–22;
Micronesia:
G59288, G62513, G62568, G62631, G62678–83 Pohnpei;
Marshall Is.:
G57241.
Species group:
echinata
.
Description.
Colony outline:
indeterminate, predominantly hispidose.
Branches:
tertiary
branching order present; length: 25–50 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; not porous; outer diameter 1.6–2.5 mm; inner diameter 0.7–1.0 mm; primary septa to ¾ R.
Radial corallites:
medium; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: appressed tubular; openings: oval-rounded; primary septa to ¼ R.
Coenosteum:
same on and between radials: costate; spinule shape: elaborate.
Further literature.
Wallace (1999), Veron (2000).