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
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2012-06-30
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Acropora clathrata
(Brook 1891)
(
Fig. 19
)
Madrepora clathrata
Brook, 1891: 459
; 1893: 49, pl. 5, pl. 6 figs A–B.
Madrepora complanata
Brook, 1891: 459
; 1893: 70, pl. 8 fig. C.
Madrepora orbicularis
Brook, 1892: 460
; 1893: 37, pl. 2.
Madrepora vasiformis
Brook, 1893: 37
, pl. 26 fig. A.
Type locality.
Mauritius (holotype NHM).
MTQ Holdings. Kenya:
G59733;
Mayotte:
G63181, G63266–68, G63386–87, G63422;
Seychelles:
G47947–48, G51864–65, G59454, G59503, G59536;
La R
é
union:
G33218;
Mauritius:
G33203, G39783, G54467;
Maldives:
G52006, G52071–73, G53010–16, G59836–43, G59929;
Chagos:
G51368–70;
Thailand:
G32787, G55974–77, G56128;
Indonesia:
G47188, G48801–02 Sumatra; G49749, G49766, G51695 Bali; G50925 Nusa Tenggara; G48807–09 Alor; G51713–15 Lomblen; G47486 Lombok; G47031–32, G62723 Ambon; G48803, G49748, G50926 Flores; G49761–65 Kalimantan; G48805 Semau; G47210–21, G49750–60, G51696–97 Sulawesi; G51698– 702, G51711–12 Molucca Sea; G51703–10, G52405 Halmahera; G46848–55, G36218 Banda Sea; G48804, G48806 West Timor; G60755, G35767, G36035, G36041 Irian Jaya;
Australia:
G40780, G60662, G61672 West; G27359–60, G27362, G27364–65, G27367–70, G27372–73, G27375–76, G30356, G41070, G47384, G60517, G61764, G61772, G64758 Great Barrier Reef; G47283, G64980 South–East; G27361, G27377, G63800 Coral Sea;
South China Sea:
G37565, G46823, G52157, G52285;
Japan:
G38294, G47737;
Taiwan:
G43847, G45940, G47575–76, G47593;
Philippines:
G52317;
Palau:
G36237, G36537, G56639, G60438;
Papua New Guinea
: G35611, G35668, G35674, G35678, G53469–78, G53538– 41, G54657;
Micronesia:
G62771 Kosrae; G41238, G62375–77 Pohnpei;
Solomon Is.:
G52586, G57912;
New Caledonia:
G35013, G58706, G58729;
Chesterfield Atoll:
G27371, G27374, G58922;
Kiribati:
G55006;
Samoa:
G34875, G34881, G41295, G54273–74.
Species group:
divaricata
.
Description.
Colony outline:
determinate, predominantly table.
Branches:
tertiary branching order absent; length: 25–50 mm; diameter: 5.0–9.9 mm, radial-dominated, terete; radial crowding: some touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10.
Axial corallites:
three synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 1.6–3.0 mm; inner diameter 0.5–0.9 mm; primary septa to 1/3 R.
Radial corallites:
medium; three synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: nariform; openings: dimidiate; primary septa absent.
Coenosteum:
different on and between radials: between radials: reticulate, on radials: reticulo-costate; spinule shape: forked.
Taxonomic note.
Acropora clathrata
reported from Kuwait in Carpenter
et al.
(1997) was found to be a new species in the
A. robusta
group, and described as
A. downingi
in Wallace (1999)
.
Further literature.
Sheppard & Sheppard (1991), Nishihira & Veron (1995), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Pillay
et al.
(2002), Dai & Horng (2009), Turak & DeVantier (2011).