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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Acropora horrida
(Dana, 1846)
(
Fig. 42
)
Madrepora horrida
Dana, 1846: 472
pl. 39 figs 2–2a.
Madrepora angulata
Quelch, 1886: 160
.
Madrepora inermis
Brook, 1891: 462
; 1893: 194 pl. 29 figs A–B.
Acropora sekiseiensis
Veron, 1990: 107
, figs 11–12.
Type locality.
Fiji (holotype NMNH-SI).
MTQ Holdings.
G32476 HOLOTYPE of
A
.
sekiseiensis
Japan;
Red Sea:
G55260 Saudi Arabia;
Mauritius:
G59125, G59344–45;
Maldives:
G51998, G52087, G59827, G59939–45, G60269, G60325;
Chagos:
G51869–70;
Thailand:
G32802, G55961, G56038–40, G56440, G56051;
Malaysia
: G57662–63, G57679 mainland and islands; G53921 Sabah;
Indonesia:
G49527, G49532, G59725 Bali; G50973–74 Nusa Tenggara; G49502, G49512–19 Alor; G48176–78 Lombok; G50739 Seribu Is; G49509, G50972 Flores; G49500–01, G49522–26, G53865–66, G56622, G59059 Kalimantan; G49511 Semau; G48166–75, G49520–21, G49528–31, G50818, G51971–72, G53666, G53859–64, G55520, G56510, G56617, G56619, G56623, G57087–89, G58633 Sulawesi; G51985, G53665 Molucca Sea; G51973–84 Halmahera; G49503 Banda Sea; G49510, G60780–84, G61001 Irian Jaya;
Australia:
G27035, G27076, G28737, G28739, G28741–49, G28751, G28753–55, G29243, G29245–48, G29250–52, G29254, G29469–72, G29474–76, G29856, G29858–60, G29863, G56935, G57539, G57733, G58142–51, G58177–81, G58265, G58290–93, G58302–3, G58374, G58385, G58599–600, G60512, G60601, G63111, G63896, G64764 Great Barrier Reef; G29477, G29864, G33187, G33195, G60134–36, G62810 South-East; G33750 Coral Sea;
G29466 Admiralty Is.;
Japan:
G47769;
Philippines:
G32823, G41709;
Palau:
G56865, G56868, G56894, G60214;
Papua New Guinea
: G35628, G35913–14, G35917, G52805–10, G53251;
Micronesia:
G59292, G62489, G62497–02, G62546, G62589, G62655, G62670 Pohnpei;
Solomon Is.:
G58991, G59001;
Chesterfield Atoll:
G29861;
Marshall Is.:
G56222, G57219–24, G57317–19, G57332–34;
Kiribati:
G51215, G51217;
Austral Is.:
G32858.
Species group:
horrida
.
Description.
Colony outline:
indeterminate, predominantly arborescent.
Branches:
tertiary branching order present; length:>1 0 0 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; porous; outer diameter 1.4–2.4 mm; inner diameter 0.6–1.5 mm; primary septa to 2/3 R.
Radial corallites:
medium; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: tubular; openings: ovalrounded; primary septa to ½ R.
Coenosteum:
same on and between radials: reticulate; spinule shape: single point.
Further literature.
Sheppard & Sheppard (1991), Nishihira & Veron (1995), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Turak & DeVantier (2011).