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 torihalimeda
Wallace, 1994
(
Fig. 106
)
Acropora torihalimeda
Wallace, 1994: 983
, fig. 24.
Type locality.
Swains Reef, eastern Australia.
MTQ Holdings.
HOLOTYPE G27200;
Australia:
G46095 East.
Species group:
elegans
.
Description.
Colony outline:
indeterminate, predominantly free living–arborescent.
Branches:
tertiary branching order absent; length: 25–50 mm; diameter: <2.5 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete; radial crowding: not touching; axial/ radial ratio: <1:10.
Axial corallites:
two synap-
ticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 1.4–1.4 mm; inner diameter 0.8–0.8 mm; primary septa to ½ R.
Radial corallites:
small; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: tubular; openings: ovalrounded; primary septa absent.
Coenosteum:
same on and between radials: dense spinules; spinule shape: elaborate.
Further literature.
Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Turak & DeVantier (2011).