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 kosurini
Wallace, 1994
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Fig. 51
)
Acropora kosurini
Wallace, 1994: 984
, fig. 27.
Type locality.
Koh Surin, Mergui Archipelago, West Thailand.
MTQ Holdings.
HOLOTYPE G37295, PARATYPES G37294, G37296–97, G37299–301West Thailand;
Kenya:
G59592–94;
Maldives:
G61602–05;
Thailand:
G52639–41, G59311–12, G59315, G59319;
Indonesia:
G49725–26 Sumatra;
Marshall Is.:
G37963.
Species group:
divaricata
.
Description.
Colony outline:
determinate, predominantly corymbose.
Branches:
tertiary branching order absent; length: 5 0–100 mm; diameter: 5.0–9.9 mm, radial-dominated, terete;
radial crowding: some touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10.
Axial corallites:
three synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 2.3–3.7 mm; inner diameter 0.6–0.8 mm; primary septa to 1/3 R.
Radial corallites:
medium; three synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: nariform; openings: dimidiate; primary septa to 2/3 R.
Coenosteum:
same on and between radials: open spinules; spinule shape: forked.
Further literature.
Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000).