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. text Memoirs of the Queensland Museu Nature 2012 2012-06-30 57 1 258 journal article 28769 10.5281/zenodo.2163512 efa6ed42-a9c8-4eb7-909e-81fb4091b243 0079-8835 2163512 Acropora turaki Wallace, 1994 ( Fig. 109 ) Acropora turaki Wallace, 1994: 468 , fig. 8. Type locality. Rowley Shoals, Western Australia. MTQ Holdings. HOLOTYPE G46446, PARATYPE G46447 Western Australia; Thailand: G52646 Indonesia: G49007–09 Bali; G49005–06 Kalimantan; G47701, G48680, G48855–63, G55426, G58791, G58792 Sulawesi; G52436–38 Halmahera; Australia: G46447, G56984–85; Palau: G60435, G60444; Papua New Guinea : G39736, G53317; Micronesia: G59297, G59641, G62350–54, G62712 Pohnpei; Solomon Is.: G58534–35, G58591. Species group: echinata . Description. Colony outline: indeterminate, predominantly hispidose. Branches: tertiary branching order present; length: 25–50 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; not porous; outer diameter 1.5–2.0 mm; inner diameter 0.4–0.8 mm; primary septa to 1/3 R. Radial corallites: medium; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: appressed tubular; openings: oval-rounded; primary septa absent. Coenosteum: same on and between radials: dense spinules; spinule shape: elaborate. Further literature. Wallace (1997, 1999), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Veron (2000).