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 lovelli
Veron & Wallace, 1984
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Fig. 58
)
Acropora lovelli
Veron & Wallace, 1984: 194
, fig. 456.
Type locality.
Middleton Reef, Coral Sea.
MTQ Holdings.
HOLOTYPE G55075 Middleton Reef, Coral Sea;
Red Sea:
G54850 Eritrea;
Mauritius:
G54893;
Thailand:
G32794, G55359, G55381, G59314, G59325–7, G59336;
Australia:
G38662, G47014, G48782– 88, G55062–63 West; G34138 Great Barrier Reef; G28935–46, G30449–61, G31146, G33186, G33196, G34155–62, G34164–68, G34243, G35990–94, G36620–25, G46936, G52758, G54689, G56973–74, G56978, G58774–76, G59364, G60132–33, G60394, G62824, G64595 South-East; G64589 Coral Sea;
Micronesia:
G38003 Chuuk;
Marshall Is.:
G56170–72, G57166–68, G57329–30;
Kiribati:
G54989;
Cook Is.:
G35705, G35860;
Austral Is.:
G35861;
Pitcairn Is.:
G54620–21.
Species group:
lovelli
.
Description.
Colony outline:
determinate, predominantly arborescent.
Branches:
tertiary
branching order absent; length:>100 mm; diameter: 10.0–19.9 mm, axial-dominated, terete; radial crowding: not touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10.
Axial corallites:
two synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 2.0–4.3 mm; inner diameter 0.9–1.7 mm; primary septa to ¾ R.
Radial corallites:
medium; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: rounded appressed; openings: ovalrounded; primary septa to ¾ R.
Coenosteum:
different on and between radials: between radials: reticulate, on radials: reticulo-costate; spinule shape: single point.
Further literature.
Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000).