Acropora desalwii Wallace, 1994

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 : 50

Acropora desalwii Wallace, 1994

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Acropora desalwii Wallace, 1994: 972 , fig. 12.

Type locality. Banda Sea, Gunung Api, Banda Islands, Indonesia.

MTQ Holdings. HOLOTYPE G46450, PARATYPES G46448–49, G46451–52, G46902 Indonesia; Mayotte: G63769; Indonesia: G48229, G48231–33, G59663, G63341 Sulawesi; G48159, G50620 Banda Sea; G60737–38 Irian Jaya; Papua New Guinea: G59106, G59704; Micronesia: G59263, G59646, G62466, G62590, G62633–35 Pohnpei; Solomon Is.: G58571.

Species group: loripes.

Description. Colony outline: indeterminate, predominantly corymbose. Branches: tertiary branching order absent; length: <25 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 1.0–1.2 mm; inner diameter 0.6–0.8 mm; primary septa to ¼ R. Radial corallites: medium; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: appressed tubular; openings: oval-rounded; primary septa absent. Coenosteum: different on and between radials: between radials: open spinules, on radials: costate; spinule shape: blunt irregular.

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

Figures

FIG. 23. Acropora desalwii, G62466, Pohnpei, Micronesia, 2009 (photo: P. Muir). Map of documented distribution: blue squares = MTQ specimens; pink squares = literature records; orange diamonds = type localities (where given), including primary synonyms.