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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journal article
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10.5281/zenodo.2163512
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Acropora dendrum
(Bassett-Smith, 1890)
(
Fig. 21
)
Madrepora dendrum
Bassett-Smith, 1890: 452
.
Type locality.
Macclesfield Banks, China Sea (lectotype NHM).
MTQ Holdings. Thailand:
G52642, G55998;
Australia:
G27268–70, G27272–73, G27275–78, G27380, G27382 Great Barrier Reef;
Philippines:
G41560;
Papua New Guinea
: G53316;
New Caledonia:
G40880.
Chesterfield Atoll:
G27274.
Species group:
selago
.
Description.
Colony outline:
determinate, predominantly corymbose.
Branches:
tertiary branching order absent; length: 2 5–50 mm; diameter: 5.0–9.9 mm, axial-dominated, terete;
radial crowding: not touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10.
Axial corallites:
two synapticular rings; porous; outer diameter 1.4–2.2 mm; inner diameter 0.5–1.2 mm; primary septa to ¾ R.
Radial corallites:
medium; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall not developed; shape: dimidiate/lipped; openings: cochleariform; primary septa to 2/3 R.
Coenosteum:
same on and between radials: reticulate; spinule shape: laterally flattened.
Further literature.
Nishihira & Veron (1995), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Turak & DeVantier (2011).