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 tenuis
(Dana, 1846)
(
Fig. 105
)
Madrepora tenuis
Dana, 1846: 451
.
Madrepora
macrostoma
Brook, 1891: 464; 1893: 105, pl. 19 fig. B.
Madrepora
bifaria
Brook, 1892: 453; 1893 p.110, pl. 30 fig. A.
Madrepora
kenti
Brook, 1892: 458; 1893: 110, pl. 11 fig. B.
Acropora
plana
Nemenzo, 1967: 93, pl. 27 fig. 3.
Type locality.
Fiji (holotype NMNH-SI).
MTQ Holdings. Kenya:
G58936;
Mayotte:
G63320, G63439;
Seychelles:
G47932, G49219, G51859–61, G59456;
Mauritius:
G51821–24, G51874, G54914–16;
Maldives:
G52000, G52079, G52097, G53032–33, G59756–57, G59867, G60260, G60315, G60338, G60340, G61623;
Chagos:
G51341–43, G51765, G51767;
Thailand:
G32800–01, G52645, G55955, G56477–83;
Malaysia
: G52626 mainland and islands; G40025 Sabah;
Indonesia:
G47164, G48639–43 Sumatra; G50772–73 Java; G52038 Bali; G50954 Nusa Tenggara; G48651–52 Alor; G47476 Lombok; G49821 Riau; G52055–56 Tukangbesi Islands; G50752–53 Seribu Is; G47029 Ambon; G48644–49 Flores; G39825, G50119–24 Kalimantan; G34175, G47462–75, G50105, G50112–18, G52039–43, G53737, G54300 Sulawesi; G52054 Molucca Sea; G52044–53 Halmahera; G36219, G46861–66, G46966 Banda Sea; G48650 West Timor;
Australia:
G48701–02, G51278, G52446, G52665, G60630, G60655, G61666 West; G48127, G51277 North; G27015, G27054, G27078, G27102–3, G27189, G27232, G27234–38, G27246–50, G27252–55, G27279–86, G27288–90, G27292, G27294–99, G27381, G27711, G28167, G28444–45, G28449–55, G28457, G29057–64, G29308, G29310, G29312–13, G29315–16, G29480, G29898–906, G29908, G29910–12, G30121, G31175, G32214, G32447–48, G32455–56, G34145, G34149, G34225, G34241, G35014–15, G35138–42, G39879, G40909, G41100–04, G47642, G48305, G48325, G49331, G51097, G54322,
G57603, G58409, G60564, G60568, G63895, G64739, G64754 Great Barrier Reef; G29909, G60130–31, G64981 South-East; G27233, G27291, G27293, G28447, G29309, G29907, G35879, G60547, G63792 Coral Sea;
South China Sea:
G52158–66;
Japan:
G38033, G38041, G47787;
Taiwan:
G43841, G45839, G45941;
Palau:
G56632;
Guam:
G40735, G53634;
Papua New Guinea
: G35638, G35897–98, G53272–88;
Micronesia:
G40766–67, G40776 Yap; G37995, G40755, G40807, G40815, G62385–87, G62651 Pohnpei;
Solomon Is.:
G52602;
New Caledonia:
G33093, G35002;
Chesterfield Atoll:
G27287, G28448, G29311, G29314, G29317;
Marshall Is.:
G33146, G56161, G56231–32;
Fiji:
G40941;
Cook Is.:
G35929.
Species group:
selago
.
Description.
Colony outline:
determinate, predominantly corymbose.
Branches:
tertiary branching order absent; length: 2 5–50 mm; diameter: 5.0–9.9 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete; radial crowding: most touching; axial/ radial ratio:>1:10.
Axial corallites:
two synapticular rings; porous; outer diameter 1.8–3.4 mm; inner diameter 0.8–1.2 mm; primary septa to 1/3 R.
Radial corallites:
medium; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: dimidiate/lipped; openings: cochleariform; primary septa to 2/3 R.
Coenosteum:
different on and between radials: between radials: reticulate, on radials: costate; spinule shape: single point.
Further literature.
Nishihira & Veron (1995), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Pillay
et al.
(2002), Turak & DeVantier (2011).