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 sarmentosa
(Brook, 1892)
(
Fig. 87
)
Madrepora sarmentosa
Brook, 1892: 462; 1893: 127
, pl. 22.
Acropora vermiculata
Nemenzo, 1967: 108
, pl. 31 fig. 4.
Type locality.
Port Denison, Queensland (lectotype NHM).
MTQ Holdings. Indonesia:
G51175 Java; G39803 Kalimantan; G55435 Sulawesi; G54540 Halmahera;
Australia:
G38663, G40456 West; G27049, G27083, G27899–902, G27904–0 5, G27907–11, G27913–14, G27916–17, G28239–40, G28578, G28581, G28584–89, G28591–96, G28765, G28767, G28772–73, G28775–78, G28780–82, G28784, G28787, G29023–24, G29026–29, G29393–94, G29396–400, G29402–05, G29409, G29411–12, G30329, G30331, G32464, G34230, G35123–24, G39864, G39881, G39944, G40906, G40985, G47626–29, G51092–95, G51299, G55483, G57031–33, G59017, G60513, G60562, G60593, G64715 Great Barrier Reef; G28590, G28766, G28771, G28774, G28785, G58399, G58432, G58507, G60089, G64151 South-East; G27906, G28786, G29025, G29401, G57624, G57632, G57873, G60565, G64775 Coral Sea;
Japan:
G62855;
Taiwan:
G47613;
Philippines:
G32809, G41949, G45863;
Papua New Guinea
: G53108–29;
Solomon Is.:
G52107, G58050;
New Caledonia:
G33103, G34953, G58726, G59172, G61027;
Chesterfield Atoll:
G27903, G27912, G28579, G28582–83, G29407, G58919;
Samoa:
G34772;
Cook Is.:
G35731;
Austral Is.:
G35806.
Species group:
florida
.
Description.
Colony outline:
determinate, predominantly corymbose.
Branches:
tertiary branching order absent; length: 25–50 mm; diameter: 5.0–9.9 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete; radial crowding: most touching; axial/ radial ratio:>1:10.
Axial corallites:
three synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 3.0–4.0 mm; inner diameter 1.0–2.0 mm; primary septa to ¾ R.
Radial corallites:
large; three synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall not developed; shape: appressed tubular; openings: oval-rounded; primary septa to 2/3 R.
Coenosteum:
different on and between radials: between radials: reticulate, on radials: reticulate; spinule shape: single point.
Further literature.
Nishihira & Veron (1995), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Dai & Horng (2009), Turak & DeVantier (2011).