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 hemprichii
(Ehrenberg, 1834)
(
Fig. 40
)
Heteropora hemprichii
Ehrenberg, 1834: 109
.
Type locality.
Red Sea (syntypes MNB).
MTQ Holdings. Red Sea:
G54682, G54871, G55244, G62977, G62983, G62985 Saudi Arabia; G58868 Yemen.
Species group:
rudis
.
Description.
Colony outline:
indeterminate, predominantly arborescent.
Branches:
tertiary branching order present; length: 50–100 mm; diameter:>19.9 mm, axial-dominated, tapering; radial crowding: most touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10.
Axial corallites:
greater than three
synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 2.7–4.1 mm; inner diameter 0.8–1.2 mm; primary septa to ¾ R.
Radial corallites:
large; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: rounded tubular; openings: oval-rounded; primary septa to 2/3 R.
Coenosteum:
same on and between radials: reticulate; spinule shape: single point.
Further literature.
Sheppard & Sheppard (1991), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000).