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 bushyensis
Veron & Wallace, 1984
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Fig. 12
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Acropora bushyensis
Veron & Wallace, 1984: 187
, figs 440–41, 444.
Acropora fasciculare
Latypov, 1992: 120
, pl. 5 figs 1, 2.
Type locality.
Bushy Island-Redbill, Reef Great Barrier Reef.
MTQ Holdings.
HOLOTYPE G55078 Great Barrier Reef;
Thailand
: G55381, G55359, G59314, G59325–7, G59336;
Australia:
G51261 North; G27062–64, G28078– 99, G38974, G47624–25, G51186 Great Barrier Reef; G34190, G60237, G64147–50 South-East;
Solomon Is.:
G52593;
New Caledonia:
G41109; Marshall Is.: G56198;
Cook Is
.: G55317.
Species group:
lovelli
.
Description.
Colony outline:
determinate, predominantly corymbose.
Branches:
tertiary
branching order absent; length: 2 5–50 mm; diameter: 10.0–19.9 mm, axial-dominated, terete; radial crowding: not touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10.
Axial corallites:
two synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 1.8–3.5 mm; inner diameter 0.7–1.5 mm; primary septa to ¾ R.
Radial corallites:
medium; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: rounded appressed; openings: ovalrounded; primary septa to ¼ R.
Coenosteum:
same on and between radials: reticulate; spinule shape: single point.
Further literature.
Wallace (1999), Veron (2000).