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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Acropora pichoni
Wallace, 1999
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Fig. 74
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Acropora pichoni
Wallace, 1999: 306
, pl. 84.
Type locality.
Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea.
MTQ Holdings.
HOLOTYPE G53270, PARATYPES G39799–802, G53269, G53271, Papua New Guinea; PARATYPE G48345 Truk, Micronesia;
Indonesia:
G56512–14, G57047, G58635 Sulawesi; G63164–65 Halmahera; G60746–48 Irian Jaya;
Papua New Guinea
G61428;
Micronesia:
G59276–79, G59294–95, G59654, G62432–47, G62596, G62611, G62615–17, G62791 Pohnpei;
Solomon Is.:
G57923.
Species group:
elegans
Description.
Colony outline:
determinate, predominantly plate.
Branches:
tertiary branching order absent; length: 25–50 mm; diameter: 10.0–19.9 mm, axial-dominated, terete; radial crowding: not touching; axial/radial ratio: <1:10.
Axial corallites:
two synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 1.4–2.4 mm; inner diameter 0.5–0.9 mm; primary septa to 2/3 R.
Radial corallites:
medium; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: tubular; openings: oval-rounded; primary septa to 2/3 R.
Coenosteum:
same on and between radials: dense spinules; spinule shape: elaborate.
Further literature.
Veron (2000), Turak & DeVantier (2011).