Fossils reveal a high diversity of the staghorn coral genera Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Neogene of Indonesia
Author
Santodomingo, Nadiezhda
Author
Wallace, Carden C.
Author
Johnson, Kenneth G.
text
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2015
2015-11-18
175
4
677
763
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12295
journal article
10.1111/zoj.12295
0024-4082
5339562
ACROPORA FLORIDA
GROUP
Diagnosis
Colonies usually hispidose. Radial corallites large, appressed tubular with thickened, lip-like lower wall, round calices, evenly sized. Radial and axial corallites make equal contribution to the branch diameter. Coenosteum on radial corallite walls costate or reticulocostate and between radial corallites reticulate with little development of simple spinules (
Wallace, 1999
). The two extant species
Acropora florida
(
Dana, 1846
)
and
Acropora sarmentosa
(
Brook, 1892
)
occur subtidally, and
A. florida
is one of the most commonly distribut- ed species on modern Indo-Pacific reefs (
Wallace, 1999
;
Wallace
et al
., 2012
). Four species were recognized among the fossil specimens from
Indonesia
.