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 lokani
Wallace, 1994
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Fig. 55
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Acropora lokani
Wallace, 1994: 975
fig. 16.
Type locality.
West New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
MTQ Holdings.
HOLOTYPE G39884 Papua New Guinea; PARATYPES G40018, G41129 Sabah, Malaysia;
Indonesia:
G48267 Lombok; G60762 Irian Jaya;
Papua New Guinea
: G53509–17;
Micronesia:
G59268– 69, G62516, G62586, G62685 Pohnpei;
Solomon Is.:
G57916.
Species group:
loripes
.
Description.
Colony outline:
indeterminate, predominantly corymbose.
Branches:
tertiary branching order absent; length: <25 mm; diameter:
2.5–4.9 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete; radial crowding: not touching; axial/radial ratio: <1:10.
Axial corallites:
three synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 2.2–2.6 mm; inner diameter 0.6–0.9 mm; primary septa to 2/3 R.
Radial corallites:
medium; three synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: appressed tubular; openings: ovalrounded; primary septa to 1 R.
Coenosteum:
same on and between radials: dense spinules; spinule shape: elaborate.
Further literature.
Wallace (1999), Veron (2000).