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 papillare
Latypov, 1992
(
Fig. 72
)
Acropora papillare
Latypov, 1992: 121
, fig. 6.
Acropora indiana
Wallace, 1994: 963
, fig. 4.
Type locality.
Vietnam (holotype IMBR).
MTQ Holdings.
G46445 HOLOTYPE of
A. indiana
from Rowley Shoals, Western Australia; G39763, G46444 PARATYPE of
A. indiana
, Western Australia; G47037 PARATYPE of
A. indiana
Ambon; G46415–18 PARATYPES of
A. indiana
Banda Sea
;
Indonesia:
G48566–67 Alor; G48561–62 Flores; G48620 Semau; G51577, G55459, G57648 Sulawesi; G48563–65, G48621 West Timor;
Australia:
G38371, G39765–67, G40792, G41154, West; G48368, G48400, G58244–50, G58270–76, G58339–49, G58377–79, G62289–92, G63938 Great Barrier Reef.
Species group:
aspera
.
Description.
Colony outline:
indeterminate, predominantly arborescent.
Branches:
tertiary
branching order absent; length: 5 0–100 mm; diameter:>19.9 mm, axial-dominated, tapering; radial crowding: some touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10.
Axial corallites:
three synapticular rings; porous; outer diameter 2.7–3.4 mm; inner diameter 0.8–1.6 mm; primary septa to 1/3 R.
Radial corallites:
medium; two synapticular rings; two sizes; inner wall not developed; shape: dimidiate/lipped; openings: horizontal lip; primary septa to 1/3 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).