Acropora, Oken, 1815

Wallace, Carden C., Done, Barbara J. & Muir, Paul R., 2012, Revision and catalogue of worldwide staghorn corals Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Museum of Tropical Queensland, Memoirs of the Queensland Museu Nature 57, pp. 1-258 : 134

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Acropora
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Acropora View in CoL multiacuta Nemenzo, 1967

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Acropora View in CoL multiacuta Nemenzo, 1967: 133, pl. 39 figs 1–3.

Type locality. Cebu, Philippines (holotype MSI-UP). MTQ Holdings. Indonesia: G48387–89 Flores; G48843–52, G50534, G55433, G55434, G56729–33, Sulawesi; Australia: G27463–75, G35384–403, G41264 Great Barrier Reef; Philippines: G55008; Solomon Is.: G52574–75, G58585.

Species group: humilis .

Description. Colony outline: determinate, predominantly corymbose. Branches: tertiary branching order absent; length: 2 5–50 mm; diameter: 10.0–19.9 mm, axial-dominated, taper-

ing; radial crowding: not touching; axial/radial ratio: <1:10. Axial corallites: greater than three synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 2.4–6.5 mm; inner diameter 0.6–2 mm; primary septa to ¾ R. Radial corallites: large; greater than three synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: nariform; openings: oval-rounded; primary septa to ¼ R. Coenosteum: same on and between radials: reticulate; spinule shape: elaborate.

Further literature. Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Wolstenholme et al. (2003).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Scleractinia

Family

Acroporidae

Loc

Acropora

Wallace, Carden C., Done, Barbara J. & Muir, Paul R. 2012
2012
Loc

Acropora

Oken 1815
1815
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