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 hyacinthus
(Dana, 1846)
(
Fig. 44
)
Madrepora hyacinthus
Dana, 1846: 444
, pl. 32 fig. 2.
Madrepora surculosa
Dana, 1846: 445
, pl. 32 fig. 4–4a, 5.
Madrepora surculosa
var.
turbinata
Dana, 1846: 445
.
Madrepora patella
Studer, 1878: 526
, pl. 1 fig. 3.
Madrepora turbinata
Dana, 1846
: pp; Verrill, 1902: 242.
Madrepora conferta
Quelch, 1886: 164
, pl. 10 fig. 3.
Madrepora pectinata
Brook, 1892: 460
; 1893: 95, pl. 27 figs D–E.
Madrepora recumbens
Brook, 1892: 461
; 1893: 106, pl. 27 fig. F.
Madrepora sinensis
Brook, 1893: 114
, pl. 33 fig. C.
Type locality.
Fiji (holotype NMNH-SI).
MTQ Holdings. Red Sea:
G54865, G57765, G57767, G57776 Egypt; G53549 Sudan; G53547–48, G54748 Yemen;
Kenya:
G54924–25;
Seychelles:
G49210, G59496;
La R
é
union:
G33210;
Mauritius:
G51815–16, G51873, G54470, G54904, G54913;
Maldives:
G59819–20, G59924–25, G60360;
Sri Lanka:
G55772–73, G56347;
Thailand:
G32791, G36141, G55972–73, G55992–93, G56121, G56126, G56137, G56443, G56068–69, G59334;
Malaysia
: G52612–13, G57669, G59144, G59148 mainland and islands; G40021, G53917 Sabah;
Singapore:
G41018, G41022, G45887;
Indonesia:
G41545–50, G48508–14, G50027 Sumatra; G32832, G59197 Java; G46695–97, G50031–33, G50057–60, G53800–01, G59722 Bali; G50988–91, G50995–1002 Nusa Tenggara; G48523–30, G50029–30, G50552, G50619 Alor; G53828–29 Lomblen; G47449, G48042, G48122–23, G48158 Lombok; G35971 Maluku; G49836–49 Riau; G53821–27, G53830–35 Tukangbesi Islands; G50993 Taka’bonerate; G50062, G50085 Seribu Is; G36214 Ambon; G48515–19, G50028 Flores; G50044–56, G50994, G51166 Kalimantan; G48521 Semau; G35501–0 5, G47297–307, G47973, G50026, G50034–43, G50086, G50177, G50613, G50618, G50763–65, G50992, G53802 Sulawesi; G53803–06, G53818–20 Molucca Sea; G53807–17 Halmahera; G46906–13, G47296, G50151, G58899 Banda Sea; G48520, G48522 West Timor; G36036 Irian Jaya;
Australia:
G36047–48, G38395, G39762, G39764, G39770–71, G40836–37, G40842, G48739–48, G50083–84, G51167, G51541–42, G52453–58, G60632, G60661, G60665, G61091, G61661, G64395 West; G39777–78, G51262, G58989, G59656 North; G27056, G27096, G27585, G27587–88, G27591–93, G27595, G27597, G276001, G27603, G27606, G27610, G27612–14, G27616, G27618–19, G27768, G28682–92, G28811, G29114–19, G29504, G32747–52, G32754–72, G32774–75, G35022, G37360–61, G37371–72, G37399–400, G38142, G41308, G43499–550, G43574, G46057, G46428, G47621, G48297, G54327–66, G57525, G57533, G57730, G58401, G59023–27, G62230, G63126, G64728–30 Great Barrier Reef; G14827, G14837, G14839, G27589–90, G27594, G27596, G27598–99, G27602, G27604, G27608–9, G27615, G27617, G34194, G47281, G57489–92, G58433, G60063–72,
G60074, G60076, G60078, G60080, G60082, G60084, G60137–39, G60450–51, G62821, G64961–68 South- East; G27586, G28681, G35882–83, G39840 Coral Sea;
South China Sea:
G37564, G37566–67, G50063–81, G51157–61;
Japan:
G35487, G36821–23, G36831–33, G36914, G38012, G38015, G38027, G47773–75, G62296, G62302, G62305, G62310, G62327, G62337, G62339, G62996;
Taiwan:
G35496, G43842–43, G45798, G45812, G46533, G47581, G47600;
Philippines:
G32814, G41573, G41706, G41708, G41714, G45854–55, G50082, G52335–37;
Palau:
G36226, G36232, G56630–31, G61865;
Papua New Guinea
: G35634, G35642–43, G35650, G53237–50, G53460, G53593, G53594;
Louisiade Archipelago:
G33355, G35361;
Micronesia:
G40712–15, G41172 Yap; G36610 Chuuk; G40749, G40818, G41240, G62402, G62462, G62486–87, G62619 Pohnpei; G62766–69 Kosrae;
Solomon Is.:
G52603–05;
New Caledonia:
G33091, G33096, G33105, G34960, G34973, G34996–98, G58738, G61032;
Chesterfield Atoll:
G38251;
Marshall Is.:
G33139, G56145–46, G56203, G57239, G57240;
Kiribati:
G54953, G54980–82;
Tuvalu
: G37560;
Samoa:
G38990, G41296, G43467, G43481;
Niue:
G36021, G36023, G36025, G50581–86;
Cook Is.:
G32853–54, G35722, G35729, G35732, G35737, G35845, G35948, G36061, G36068, G36071–72, G36124, G46690, G53916;
French Polynesia:
G44044, G58651;
Tahiti:
G27104, G33080, G33083–84, G53583–85, G54696;
Tuamotu Archipelago:
G32867;
Austral Is.:
G30102, G36017
Pitcairn Is.:
G54610–12.
Species group:
hyacinthus
.
Description.
Colony outline:
determinate, predominantly table.
Branches:
tertiary branching order absent; length: <25 mm; diameter: 2.5–4.9 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete; radial crowding: some touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:1 0.
Axial corallites:
two synapticular rings; porous; outer diameter 1–2 mm; inner diameter 0.4–1.1 mm; primary septa to ¾ R.
Radial corallites:
small; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall not developed; shape: dimidiate/lipped; openings: horizontal lip; primary septa to ½ R.
Coenosteum:
different on and between radials: between radials: reticulate, on radials: costate; spinule shape: laterally flattened.
Further literature.
Sheppard & Sheppard (1991), Nishihira & Veron (1995), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Pillay
et al.
(2002), Pichon
et al.
2010, Dai & Horng (2009), Wallace
et al.
(2009), Turak & DeVantier (2011).