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
multiacuta
Nemenzo, 1967
(
Fig. 65
)
Acropora
multiacuta
Nemenzo, 1967: 133, pl. 39 figs 1–3.
Type locality.
Cebu, Philippines (holotype MSI-UP).
MTQ Holdings. Indonesia:
G48387–89 Flores; G48843–52, G50534, G55433, G55434, G56729–33, Sulawesi;
Australia:
G27463–75, G35384–403, G41264 Great Barrier Reef;
Philippines:
G55008;
Solomon Is.:
G52574–75, G58585.
Species group:
humilis
.
Description.
Colony outline:
determinate, predominantly corymbose.
Branches:
tertiary branching order absent; length: 2 5–50 mm; diameter: 10.0–19.9 mm, axial-dominated, taper-
ing; radial crowding: not touching; axial/radial ratio: <1:10.
Axial corallites:
greater than three synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 2.4–6.5 mm; inner diameter 0.6–2 mm; primary septa to ¾ R.
Radial corallites:
large; greater than three synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: nariform; openings: oval-rounded; primary septa to ¼ R.
Coenosteum:
same on and between radials: reticulate; spinule shape: elaborate.
Further literature.
Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Wolstenholme
et al.
(2003).