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 turaki
Wallace, 1994
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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).