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 kimbeensis
Wallace, 1999
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Fig. 49
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Acropora kimbeensis
Wallace, 1999: 146
, pl. 19.
Type locality.
Kimbe Bay, West New Britain.
MTQ Holdings.
HOLOTYPE G53452, PARATYPES G53443, G53445, G53447–51 Papua New Guinea;
Indonesia:
G55407–09, G57006, G59382 Sulawesi; G58948 Banda Sea; G61300 Irian Jaya;
Papua New Guinea
: G53446;
Micronesia:
G59275, G62560, G62608 Pohnpei;
Marshall Is.:
G56194, G56212, G57262–64.
Species group:
nasuta
.
Description.
Colony outline:
determinate, predominantly corymbose.
Branches:
tertiary branching order absent; length: 5 0–100 mm; diameter: 2.5–4.9 mm, radial-dominated, terete; radial crowding: most touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10.
Axial corallites:
three synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 0.8–1.6 mm; inner diameter 0.4–0.6 mm; primary septa to 2/3 R.
Radial corallites:
medium; three synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: tubular; openings: ovalrounded; primary septa to 1/3 R.
Coenosteum:
same on and between radials: dense spinules; spinule shape: laterally flattened.
Further literature.
Veron (2000), Turak & DeVantier (2011).