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 sukarnoi
Wallace, 1997
(
Fig. 102
)
Acropora sukarnoi
Wallace, 1997: 30
, fig. 3.
Type locality.
Lombongan Bay, SE Bali, Indonesia.
MTQ Holdings.
HOLOTYPE G48832, PARATYPES G49284 Sumatra, G48827–31, G59036 Bali, G48493–502, G48559, G48833, G49285–86, G50103, G50528 Alor, Indonesia;
Sri Lanka:
G56352–55;
Thailand:
G56127;
Indonesia:
G49283, Sumatra; G50903 Nusa Tenggara; G59073 Flores; G63340 Sulawesi;
Australia:
G41150 Timor Sea.
Species group:
robusta
.
Description.
Colony outline:
determinate, predominantly table.
Branches:
tertiary branching order absent; length: 25–50 mm; diameter:>19.9 mm, axial-dominated, tapering; radial crowding: some touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10.
Axial corallites:
two synapticular rings; porous; outer diameter 2.3–3.0 mm; inner diameter 0.7–1.5 mm; primary septa to 2/3 R.
Radial corallites:
large; two synapticular rings; two sizes; inner wall developed; shape: tubular; openings: dimidiate; primary septa to 2/3 R.
Coenosteum:
different on and between radials: between radials: reticulate, on radials: costate; spinule shape: single point.
Further literature.
Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Turak & DeVantier (2011).