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 russelli
Wallace, 1994
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Fig. 85
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Acropora russelli
Wallace, 1994: 983
, fig. 26.
Type locality.
Cartier Reef, Timor Sea.
MTQ Holdings.
HOLOTYPE G40795, PARATYPES G40782, G40794, G40796–97 Timor Sea, Australia;
Mauritius:
G59353;
Sri Lanka:
G55765;
Indonesia:
G51486–97, G52422, G63169–71 Halmahera; G60745 Irian Jaya.
Species group:
elegans
Description.
Colony outline:
indeterminate, predominantly free living arborescent.
Branches:
tertiary branching order absent; length: 25–50 mm; diameter: <2.5 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete; radial crowding: not touching; axial/ radial ratio: <1:10.
Axial corallites:
two synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 1.6–2.2 mm; inner diameter 0.5–1.0 mm; primary septa to 1 R.
Radial corallites:
small; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: appressed tubular; openings: oval-rounded; primary septa to 2/3 R.
Coenosteum:
same on and between radials: dense spinules; spinule shape: elaborate.
Further literature.
Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000).