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 longicyathus
(Milne Edwards & Haime, 1860)
(
Fig. 56
)
Madrepora longicyathus
Milne Edwards & Haime, 1860: 148
.
Madrepora syringodes
Brook, 1892: 463
; 1893: 177, pl. 33 fig. E.
Acropora navini
Veron, 2000
, vol. 1: 431; 2002: 68–69, figs 136–139.
Type locality.
unknown (holotype MNHN).
MTQ Holdings.
G55820 HOLOTYPE of
A. navini
from Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea;
Sri Lanka:
G56331;
Thailand:
G32797, G55896–99;
Malaysia
: G54996, G57661, G57666, G57688 mainland and islands; G53926–28 Sabah;
Indonesia:
G51208–09 Seribu Is; G50788 Ambon; G47691–96, G47728–29, G50789, G51666, G55416, G59051, G63336 Sulawesi; G52414–15 Halmahera;
Australia:
G27034, G27047, G27067, G28711, G28713, G28716–17, G28719–24, G28971–76, G28978–79, G28981–85, G29454, G29459–62, G29464–65, G29485–89, G29491, G29493–95, G29509, G29822, G29825–26, G29828–29, G29832–33, G29835, G30335, G30337–39, G30341–45, G30347, G30710, G30713–16, G30719, G30721–22, G30724, G30746–60, G31147–49, G31164, G32462–63, G34244, G35127–28, G37303, G37366, G37396, G37406, G56930–31, G57020, G57513, G57523, G57527–29, G57881, G57989–90, G57994–95, G58052, G58059, G58063, G58315, G58603–04, G60598, G60602 Great Barrier Reef; G29453, G29455, G29458, G29821, G29823, G29830–31, G30340, G30709, G30711– 12, G30717–18, G30720, G30723, G33524, G34246, G39843, G57629, G57639, G60567 Coral Sea;
South China Sea:
G37562;
Japan:
G36824, G36830, G38034, G47801–02;
Palau:
G36236, G36534–35, G56883–87;
Papua New Guinea
: G39737, G53324–43, G53442, G53566, G53713–14, G54663;
Micronesia:
G37997 Chuuk; G40751, G59266, G59273, G62467, G62517–21, G62563, G62606 Pohnpei;
Solomon Is.:
G52111, G58567, G59006;
New Caledonia:
G40881, G58694, G61015, G61024, G61025;
Chesterfield Atoll:
G29452, G29457, G29492, G29824, G29827, G29834, G34148, G38151;
Marshall Is.:
G56154, G57331;
Fiji:
G34739;
Samoa:
G35607.
Species group:
echinata
.
Description.
Colony outline:
indeterminate, predominantly hispidose.
Branches:
tertiary branching order present; length: 25–50 mm; diameter: 5.0–9.9 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete; radial crowding: not touching; axial/radial ratio: <1:10.
Axial corallites:
two synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 1.5–2.8 mm; inner diameter 0.5–1.3 mm; primary septa to ¾ R.
Radial corallites:
medium; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: appressed tubular; openings: oval-rounded; primary septa to ¼ R.
Coenosteum:
same on and between radials: dense spinules; spinule shape: elaborate.
Taxonomic note.
Acropora navini
is placed in synonymy with
A. longicyathus
because the holotype falls within the range of variability of the specimen holdings above: in particular, with G39737, G57529 and G57994, all from the Great Barrier Reef.
Further literature.
Veron & Wallace (1984), Nishihira & Veron (1995), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Turak & DeVantier (2011).