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 sirikitiae
Wallace, Phongsuwan & Muir, 2012
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Fig. 91
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Acropora sirikitiae
Wallace, Phongsuwan & Muir, 2012: 119
, figs 1, 2.
Type locality.
Huyong Island, Similan Islands, Thailand.
MTQ Holdings.
HOLOTYPE G55364; PARATYPES G55352–53, G55357, G55362, G55382, G55389, G55392–93, G59316, G55394, G63005 Thailand.
Species group:
divaricata
.
Description.
Colony outline:
indeterminate, arborescent.
Branches:
tertiary branching order absent; length: 50–100 mm; diameter: 2.5–4.9 mm, radial dominated, tapering; radial crowding: some touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10.
Axial corallites:
three synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 1.4–2.5 mm; inner diameter 0.6–1.1 mm; primary septa to 1/3 R.
Radial corallites:
medium; three synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: appressed tubular; openings: oval-round- ed; primary septa to ¾ R.
Coenosteum:
same on and between radials: dense spinules; spinule shape: elaborate.
Taxonomic note.
This species is the first recorded member of the
A. divaricata
species group with indeterminate colony growth.