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 desalwii
Wallace, 1994
(
Fig. 23
)
Acropora desalwii
Wallace, 1994: 972
, fig. 12.
Type locality.
Banda Sea, Gunung Api, Banda Islands, Indonesia.
MTQ Holdings.
HOLOTYPE G46450, PARATYPES G46448–49, G46451–52, G46902 Indonesia;
Mayotte:
G63769;
Indonesia:
G48229, G48231–33, G59663, G63341 Sulawesi; G48159, G50620 Banda Sea; G60737–38 Irian Jaya;
Papua New Guinea
: G59106, G59704;
Micronesia:
G59263, G59646, G62466, G62590, G62633–35 Pohnpei;
Solomon Is.:
G58571.
Species group:
loripes
.
Description.
Colony outline:
indeterminate, predominantly corymbose.
Branches:
tertiary branching order absent; length: <25 mm; diameter: 2.5–4.9 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete;
radial crowding: not touching; axial/radial ratio: <1:10.
Axial corallites:
two synapticular rings; porous; outer diameter 1.0–1.2 mm; inner diameter 0.6–0.8 mm; primary septa to ¼ R.
Radial corallites:
medium; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: appressed tubular; openings: oval-rounded; primary septa absent.
Coenosteum:
different on and between radials: between radials: open spinules, on radials: costate; spinule shape: blunt irregular.
Further literature.
Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000).