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 yongei
Veron & Wallace, 1984
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Fig. 117
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Acropora yongei
Veron & Wallace, 1984: 294
, figs 719, 723.
Type locality.
Britomart Reef, Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
MTQ Holdings.
Holotype G55079 Great Barrier Reef, Australia;
Oman:
G40955;
Maldives:
G53034–35;
Chagos:
G51365, G54319;
Malaysia:
G53899 Sabah
Indonesia:
G59071 Sumatra; G50232, G50252–53, G59179 Bali; G50939–40 Nusa Tenggara; G50227–31, G50244–47 Alor; G47532, G47535 Lombok; G50745 Seribu Is; G36224 Ambon; G50224–26, G50941, G53858 Flores; G50238–41, G50250–51 Kalimantan; G50243 Semau; G34188, G47522–31, G47533–34, G47536, G50233–37, G50242–49, G50766–68, G50938, G54010–18, G56624, G58862, G59046, G59092 Sulawesi; G54021–22 Molucca Sea; G52441, G54019–20 Halmahera; G47484, G47515–21, G48160, G58950 Banda Sea;
Australia:
G40869 West; G27097, G27112, G27115, G27118–19, G27137, G27142–45, G27159, G27219, G27229–31, G29169, G29444–48, G29450–51, G29666–77, G29679–81, G30203, G30205, G41254–63, G49231, G51123, G58011, G60599, G61766 Great Barrier Reef; G27108–11, G27113–14, G27116–17, G27138–39, G27141, G27212–14, G27216–18, G27220–22, G27225–27, G59363, G60140, G60151, G62797–802, G64991 South-East; G33496, G27228 Coral Sea;
South
China Sea:
G46825–26;
Japan:
G35486, G36825, G36829, G62997;
Taiwan:
G47586;
Philippines:
G41697, G52316;
Palau:
G36532, G56874, G56905;
Papua New Guinea
: G35639, G52851–62, G63136;
Louisiade Archipelago:
G35364, G35369;
New Caledonia:
G41112–14, G61020;
Kiribati:
G54979, G54990;
Johnston Atoll:
G40990, G40994.
Description.
Colony outline:
indeterminate, predominantly arborescent.
Branches:
tertiary branching order absent; length:>100 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; porous; outer diameter 1.8–3.5 mm; inner diameter 0.8–1.2 mm; primary septa to 2/3 R.
Radial corallites:
medium; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: dimidiate/lipped; openings: cochleariform; primary septa to ½ R.
Coenosteum:
different on and between radials: between radials: reticulate, on radials: costate; spinule shape: single point.
Further literature.
Nishihira & Veron (1995), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Turak & DeVantier (2011).