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
rudis
(Rehberg, 1892)
(
Fig. 84
)
Madrepora
rudis
Rehberg, 1892: 41, pl. 4 fig. 9.
Type locality.
Ceylon (Sri Lanka) (holotype NMB).
MTQ Holdings. Maldives:
G60273;
Sri Lanka:
G55223–24, G55577–78;
Bangladesh:
G50567;
Thailand:
G37293, G37302, G55983–84, G56094–97, G61757;
Indonesia:
G47165–66 Sumatra.
Species group:
rudis
.
Description.
Colony outline:
indeterminate, predominantly arborescent.
Branches:
tertiary branching order absent; length: 5 0–100 mm; diameter:>19.9 mm, axial-dominated, tapering; radial crowding: some touching; axial/radial
ratio:>1:10.
Axial corallites:
greater than three synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 2.6–4.1 mm; inner diameter 0.6–1.2 mm; primary septa to ¾ R.
Radial corallites:
very large; greater than three synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: rounded tubular; openings: oval-rounded; primary septa to ½ R.
Coenosteum:
same on and between radials: reticulate; spinule shape: elaborate.
Further literature.
Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000).