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 derawanensis
Wallace, 1997
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Fig. 22
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Acropora derawanensis
Wallace, 1997: 33
, fig. 5.
Type locality.
Karang Tababinga, East Kalimantan, Indonesia.
MTQ Holdings.
HOLOTYPE G48963, PARATYPES G48958–62, G48965 Indonesia;
Indonesia:
G50317, G50967–70 Kalimantan; G55431–32, G58634, G58794 Sulawesi; G63173–75 Halmahera;
Philippines:
G53571;
Micronesia:
G59253–55, G62541, G62542 Pohnpei.
Species group:
horrida
.
Description.
Colony outline:
indeterminate, predominantly arborescent.
Branches:
tertiary branching order present; length:>1 0 0 mm; diameter: 2.5–4.9 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete; radial crowding: not touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10.
Axial corallites:
two synapticular rings; porous; outer diameter 1.1–1.4 mm; inner diameter 0.5–1.0 mm; primary septa to ¾ R.
Radial corallites:
small; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: tubular; openings: oval-rounded; primary septa to ¼ R.
Coenosteum:
same on and between radials: costate; spinule shape: blunt irregular.
Further literature.
Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000).