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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Isopora brueggemanni
(Brook, 1893)
(
Fig. 118
)
Madrepora brueggemanni
Brook, 1893: 145
, pl. 24, pl. 35 fig. E.
Acropora meridiana
Nemenzo, 1971: 146
, pl. 1 fig.3.
Type locality.
Singapore (lectotype NHM).
MTQ Holdings. Thailand:
G49069;
Malaysia
: G52631, G57657 mainland and islands; G41140–41 Sabah;
Singapore:
G45884;
Indonesia:
G46622–23, G48391–92, G58689; Sumatra; G46685 Java; G50908 Nusa Tenggara; G48398 Alor; G47461 Lombok; G49824–26 Riau; G51507–08 Tukangbesi Islands; G50746–48 Seribu Is; G50807 Ambon; G48393–97 Flores; G48936–38 Kalimantan; G35410–11, G46422, G46618–21, G47138–43, G47244–46, G48927–35, G50806, G51498–501, G59361–62 Sulawesi; G51502–06, G51667, G52402–04 Halmahera; G46230–32, G46235–39 Banda Sea; G60997–98, G61007 Irian Jaya;
Australia:
G40788, G40799, G48966, G60636, G61071–74, G64385 West; G39780, G46240, G48118–19, G49025 North; G28004–0 7, G28009, G28176–77, G28463–67, G28470, G28472–81, G28483–87, G28491, G28493–516, G28529, G28540, G28555, G31156, G47377–79, G48316, G57543, G58174–75, G58298, G60223, G60231, G60578, G62906 Great Barrier Reef; G28522 South-East; G39827 Coral Sea;
South China Sea:
G46419;
Japan:
G36826, G36910, G38035;
Philippines:
G32821, G41562–66, G41579, G41693, G45873;
Palau:
G36234, G36538, G56643, G60206;
Papua New Guinea
: G35907, G52863–74, G53563 North: G40799 Timor Sea;
Micronesia:
G40705–06, G40718, G40721–24 Yap.
Description.
Colony outline:
indeterminate, predominantly arborescent.
Branches:
tertiary branching order absent; length: 5 0–100 mm; diameter:>19.9 mm, axial-dominated, terete; radial crowding: some touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10.
Axial corallites:
greater than three synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 2.9–4.5 mm; inner diameter 1.0–1.6 mm; primary septa to ¾ R.
Radial corallites:
large; greater than three synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: appressed tubular; openings: oval-rounded; primary septa to 2/3 R.
Coenosteum:
same on and between radials: dense spinules; spinule shape: meandroid elaborate.
Further literature.
Nishihira & Veron (1995), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Dai & Horng (2009), Turak & DeVantier (2011).