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 simplex
Wallace & Wolstenholme, 1998
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Fig. 90
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Acropora simplex
Wallace & Wolstenholme, 1998: 358
, fig. 154.
Type locality.
Togian Islands, Sulawesi, Indonesia.
MTQ Holdings.
HOLOTYPE G51188;
Indonesia:
G57095, G57103, G57109 Irian Jaya;
Philippines:
G55122;
Micronesia:
G59289, G59651, G59653 Pohnpei.
Species group:
loripes
.
Description.
Colony outline:
determinate, predominantly plate.
Branches:
tertiary branching order absent; length: 50–100 mm; diameter: 2.5–4.9 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete; radial
crowding: not touching; axial/radial ratio: <1:10.
Axial corallites:
three synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 1.4–1.8 mm; inner diameter 0.6–0.8 mm; primary septa to 1/3 R.
Radial corallites:
medium; three synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: appressed tubular; openings: oval-round- ed; primary septa to ¾ R.
Coenosteum:
same on and between radials: dense spinules; spinule shape: elaborate.
Further literature.
Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Turak & DeVantier (2011).