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 globiceps
(Dana, 1846)
(
Fig. 36
)
Madrepora globiceps
Dana, 1846: 454
, pl. 34 fig. 3.
Type locality.
Tahiti (holotype NMNH SI).
MTQ Holdings. Australia:
G60453 South-East; G39834 Coral Sea;
Niue:
G36079, G36105, G36107– 0 8, G49020–24, G54512;
Cook Is.:
G35931, G35943–44, G36080–85, G36115, G36122, G49053
French Polynesia:
G44041, G56681–85, G58767;
Society Is.
: G49061;
Pitcairn Is.:
G35748–49, G35753, G49037, G49040–42.
Species group:
humilis
.
Description.
Colony outline:
determinate, predominantly corymbose.
Branches:
tertiary branching order absent; length: 5 0–100 mm; diameter: 10.0–19.9 mm, axial-dominated, reverse
tapering; radial crowding: some touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10.
Axial corallites:
greater than three synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 3.0–4.5 mm; inner diameter 1.2–2.1 mm; primary septa to ½ R.
Radial corallites:
medium; greater than three synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: tubular; openings: dimidiate; primary septa to ¼ R.
Coenosteum:
same on and between radials: reticulo-costate; spinule shape: elaborate.
Further literature.
Wallace (1999), Veron (2000).