Fossils reveal a high diversity of the staghorn coral genera Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Neogene of Indonesia
Author
Santodomingo, Nadiezhda
Author
Wallace, Carden C.
Author
Johnson, Kenneth G.
text
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2015
2015-11-18
175
4
677
763
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12295
journal article
10.1111/zoj.12295
0024-4082
5339562
ACROPORA HORRIDA
GROUP
Diagnosis
Colony shape within this group has a large phenotypic plasticity, ranging from open arborescent through hispidose to irregular caespitose. Radial corallites simple tubular with round calices, evenly sized; coenosteum bearing simple to moderate elaborated spinules, sometimes fused and solid (
Wallace & Wolstenholme, 1998
;
Wallace, 1999
).
All extant species have indeterminate growth and inhabit subtidal sheltered habitats (
Wallace, 1999
). The fossil record of
Indonesia
has representatives of six extant species and one new extinct species is described to science.