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 anthocercis
(Brook, 1893)
(
Fig. 5
)
Madrepora anthocercis
Brook, 1893: 106
, pl. 13 fig. C.
Type locality.
Palm Island, Australia (lectotype NHM).
MTQ Holdings. Red Sea:
G55232, G55263 Saudi Arabia;
Seychelles:
G59528
Thailand:
G52633
Indonesia:
G50592 Sumatra; G50833 Ambon; G61065 Irian Jaya;
Australia:
G48700 West; G28043–58, G28060–61, G28063–65, G28171–72, G28415–28, G29888–97, G30843–49, G30851–52, G34866, G48299, G57540, G58096, G58103 Great Barrier Reef; G28059, G28062, G60454 South-East; G57876–78, G58045, G60543, G63817 Coral Sea;
South China Sea:
G52255;
Japan:
G38052, G47803, G62299;
Philippines:
G45871, G45872;
Papua New Guinea
: G53461–68;
Micronesia:
G62401, G62632 Pohnpei;
Solomon Is.:
G52585, G58570;
New Caledonia:
G61196;
Kiribati:
G55021–23;
Samoa:
G63113;
Cook Is.:
G36129;
French Polynesia:
G55567.
Species group:
hyacinthus
.
Description.
Colony outline:
determinate, predominantly table.
Branches:
tertiary branching order absent; length: <25 mm; diameter: 2.5–4.9 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete; radial crowding: some touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10.
Axial corallites:
two synapticular rings; porous; outer diameter 1.9–2.8 mm; inner diameter 0.8–1.3 mm; primary septa to 2/3 R.
Radial corallites:
small; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall not developed; shape: dimidiate/lipped; openings: elongate lip; primary septa to 2/3 R.
Coenosteum:
different on and between radials: between radials: reticulate, on radials: costate; spinule shape: single point.
Further literature.
Nishihira & Veron (1995), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Turak & DeVantier (2011).