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
nana
(Studer, 1878)
(
Fig. 67
)
Madrepora
nana
Studer, 1878: 533, pl. 2 fig. 6.
Acropora azurea
Veron & Wallace, 1984: 332
, figs 819–20.
Type locality.
Fiji (holotype MNB).
MTQ Holdings.
G48399 HOLOTYPE of
A. azurea
G55100 PARATYPE of
A. azurea
from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia;
Maldives:
G60261, G60265;
Malaysia:
G53892 Sabah;
Indonesia:
G50513 Bali; G49914, G53671 Alor; G51070 Taka’bonerate; G47571 Ambon; G47572– 73, G49913 Sulawesi; G54135, G54139 Molucca Sea; G54136–38 Halmahera; G47565–70, G47574 Banda Sea;
Australia:
G40846–47, G61085–86, G61587 West; G30673, G30675–78, G30680–82, G30688–90, G33166–71, G43587, G55100, G57546, G63894 Great Barrier Reef; G30686, G35996, G64992 South-East; G28805, G30674, G30683–85, G30687 Coral Sea;
Taiwan:
G45829;
Philippines:
G32828, G41695;
Papua New Guinea
: G36013–14, G53560, G53590, G53613–15;
New Caledonia:
G61011;
Marshall Is.:
G56226–27;
Fiji:
G40947;
Samoa:
G36637;
French Polynesia:
G35609.
Species group:
latistella
.
Description.
Colony outline:
determinate, predominantly corymbose.
Branches:
tertiary branching order absent; length: 5 0–100 mm; diameter: 2.5–4.9 mm, radial-dominated, terete; radial crowding: some touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10.
Axial corallites:
two synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 1.3–2.0 mm; inner diameter 0.5–1.0 mm; primary septa to 1 R.
Radial corallites:
small; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall not developed; shape: appressed tubular; openings: ovalrounded; primary septa to ½ R.
Coenosteum:
same on and between radials: reticulo-costate; spinule shape: single point.
Further literature.
Nishihira & Veron (1995), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Nomura & Mezaki (2005), Dai & Horng (2009).