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 halmaherae
Wallace & Wolstenholme, 1998
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Fig. 39
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Acropora halmaherae
Wallace & Wolstenholme, 1998: 258
, fig. 54.
Type locality.
Halmahera, Indonesia.
MTQ Holdings.
HOLOTYPE G51513, PARATYPES G51509–12 Indonesia;
Indonesia:
G63172 Halmahera; G61285, G63114, G57110 Irian Jaya;
Papua New Guinea
: G53312–15;
Micronesia:
G59272, G59302–05, G59643, G59649, G62574–77, G62604, G62692–93, G62820 Pohnpei;
Marshall Is.:
G57232.
Species group:
horrida
.
Description.
Colony outline:
indeterminate, predominantly arborescent.
Branches:
tertiary
branching order present; length:>1 0 0 mm; diameter: 5.0–9.9 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete; radial crowding: not touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10.
Axial corallites:
two synapticular rings; porous; outer diameter 1.3–2.2 mm; inner diameter 0.6–0.9 mm; primary septa to 2/3 R.
Radial corallites:
small; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: tubular; openings: oval-rounded; primary septa to 2/3 R.
Coenosteum:
same on and between radials: costate; spinule shape: elaborate.
Further literature.
Wallace (1999), Veron (2000).