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 pruinosa
(Brook, 1893)
(
Fig. 78
)
Madrepora pruinosa
Brook, 1893: 72
, pl. 34 fig. B.
Type locality.
Korea Straits (lectotype NHM).
MTQ Holdings. Hong Kong:
G61791–94;
Japan:
G62835, G62894–03.
Species group:
not determined.
Description.
Colony outline:
indeterminate, predominantly caespitose to arborescent.
Branches:
tertiary branching order absent; length: 25–50 mm; diameter: 5.0–9.9 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, tapering; radial crowding: some touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10.
Axial corallites:
three synapticular rings; porous; outer diameter 2.1–3.1 mm; inner diameter 1.1–1.6 mm; primary septa 2/3 to 1 R.
Radial corallites:
small; one size or graded; inner wall not developed; shape: appressed tubular; openings: round; primary septa: 2/3 to 1 R.
Coenosteum:
same on and between radials: reticulate; shape: single point.
Taxonomic note.
This species was not included in Wallace (1999) as no specimens were available. To date, its distribution records are limited to Korea, Japan and Hong Kong.
Further literature
: Veron & Nishihira (1995), Veron (2000), Chan
et al.
(2004), Nakamura
et al.
(2004}, Nomura & Mezaki (2005).