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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Acropora valenciennesi
(Milne Edwards & Haime, 1860)
(
Fig. 110
)
Madrepora valenciennesi
Milne Edwards & Haime, 1860: 137
.
Acropora splendida
Nemenzo, 1967: 51
pl. 17 fig. 2.
Type locality.
Ceylon (Sri Lanka) (holotype MNHN).
MTQ Holdings. Thailand:
G56065–66, G61755–56;
Malaysia
: G52609, G57682, G57685, G59141, G59143 mainland and islands; G40020, G53925, G55026 Sabah;
Singapore:
G41029
Indonesia:
G48967–69, G48995 Sumatra; G48978, G53873, G54023 Bali; G50902 Nusa Tenggara; G48972, G48997 Alor; G54039 Lomblen; G47856 Lombok; G35763, G35980 Maluku; G50898–99 Taka’bonerate; G50816–17 Ambon; G48979, G48996, G53874 Flores; G48976–77, G48980, G50900 Kalimantan; G48970 Semau; G35529, G47847–55, G48973–75, G48998–99, G49354, G50815, G50901, G53872, G54024 Sulawesi; G54025, G54038 Molucca Sea; G54026–37, G59100 Halmahera; G47843–46 Banda Sea; G48971 West Timor; G61004 Irian Jaya;
Australia:
G40844 West; G27052, G29560–62, G29564–69, G29810–13, G29815–17, G29819–20, G30194–95, G30353, G30390–92, G30394–96, G34192, G39876, G51151 Great Barrier Reef; G29563 Coral Sea;
Japan:
G47756;
Philippines:
G41561;
Palau:
G56854, G56878;
Guam:
G36599;
Papua New Guinea
: G35612, G35620, G35670, G53205–22, G53421, G53567, G59114 North; G40844 Timor Sea;
Solomon Is.:
G58580;
New Caledonia:
G58714, G58746;
Samoa:
G41283.
Species group:
muricata
.
Description.
Colony outline:
determinate, predominantly arborescent-table.
Branches:
tertiary branching order absent; length:>100 mm; diameter: 10.0–19.9 mm, axial-dominated, tapering; radial crowding: not touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10.
Axial corallites:
two synapticular rings; porous; outer diameter 2.0–3.5 mm; inner diameter 0.8–1.5 mm; primary septa to ½ R.
Radial corallites:
medium; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: tubular; openings: ovalrounded; primary septa to 1/3 R.
Coenosteum:
different on and between radials: between radials: reticulate, on radials: costate; spinule shape: no spinules.
Further literature.
Veron & Nishihira (1995), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Turak & DeVantier (2011).