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
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2012-06-30
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Acropora donei
Veron & Wallace, 1984
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Fig. 26
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Acropora donei
Veron & Wallace, 1984: 287
figs 698, 702, 708.
Acropora akajimensis
Veron, 1990: 102
figs 7, 9.
Type locality.
Turtle Islands, Australia.
MTQ Holdings.
HOLOTYPE G55080 Great Barrier Reef, Australia; G32475
A. akajimensis
HOLOTYPE from Japan;
Red Sea:
G54280–81, G62970 Yemen;
Mayotte:
G63305–06, G63362;
Maldives:
G59815–16, G59853, G59974–82, G60323, G60373;
Thailand:
G56087–89;
Malaysia
: G57668, G57763 mainland and islands; G53931 Sabah;
Indonesia:
G50320, G53661 Sumatra; G50326–27 Bali; G48657, G50322, G53662 Alor; G53964 Lomblen; G47511–12 Lombok; G53965 Tukangbesi Islands; G47513 Ambon; G50321 Flores; G50324, G50325 Kalimantan; G47492–510, G47514, G49347, G50323, G53946 Sulawesi; G53947–49, G53962–63 Molucca Sea; G53950–61, G63153 Halmahera; G47491, G48041, G50319 Banda Sea; G48656, G60763–69, G61000 Irian Jaya;
Australia:
G40855 West; G48126, G48129–30 North; G27120–22, G27125–34, G27136, G27146–51, G27153–56, G27160, G27162, G27164, G27300, G27302, G27306–7, G27379, G29481, G29483, G30738, G31176–78, G35058–59, G35407, G39953, G40961, G47389, G57986, G60597, G64717 Great Barrier Reef; G27123–24, G27158, G29482, G29484, G56607, G58414, G58423, G58500, G60059–60, G64982 South–East; G27305, G57618 Coral Sea;
South China Sea:
G46827, G52186–89;
Japan:
G38017, G38019, G38037, G47767– 68, G62854;
Taiwan:
G43839–40, G45821–23, G45942, G45945, G47591;
Palau:
G36533, G56635, G60196;
Papua New Guinea
: G35654, G52940–44, G53598;
Micronesia:
G36612 Chuuk; G62511–12, G62548, G62551 Pohnpei; G62753 Kosrae;
Solomon Is.:
G52595, G58595;
Chesterfield Atoll:
G27303, G27314;
Marshall Is.:
G37483, G56157, G57242, G57316.
Species group:
selago
.
Description.
Colony outline:
determinate, predominantly arborescent-table.
Branches:
tertiary branching order absent; length: 5 0–100 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 2.0–4.2 mm; inner diameter 0.8–1.4 mm; primary septa to 2/3 R.
Radial corallites:
medium; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: dimidiate/lipped; openings: cochleariform; primary septa to ½ R.
Coenosteum:
different on and between radials: between radials: reticulate, on radials: costate; spinule shape: single point.
Further literature.
Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Dai & Horng (2009), Wallace
et al.
(2009), Turak & DeVantier (2011).