Acropora, Oken, 1815

Sola, Erwan, Silva, Isabel Marques da & Glassom, David, 2015, An annotated and illustrated checklist of species of the coral genus Acropora (Cnidaria: Scleractinia) from Vamizi Island, Mozambique, African Invertebrates 56 (3), pp. 807-807 : 820-821

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5733/afin.056.0320

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7915026

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E91087FE-FFDC-FFDF-77FA-FAEAFE30617C

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scientific name

Acropora
status

 

Acropora View in CoL View at ENA divaricata (Dana, 1846)

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Colony growth form: Caespito-corymbose or corymbose; typical divergent branching pattern giving a dense network of highly interlocked branches; large tables may be over a meter across and have upturned branches at the margins.

Axial corallites: Outer diameter 2.2 mm; inner diameter 0.7 mm; conspicuous, slightly conical with small round opening and thick wall; primary and secondary septal cycles are well developed.

Radial corallites: Shape and size may vary a lot between and within colonies; tubular, appressed tubular to slightly nariform; usually aligned in rows.

Coenosteum: Densely arranged costae or usually rows of elaborated and laterally flattened spinules on corallites; reticulate with less densely arranged elaborated spinules which may be forked; spinules are less densely arranged in intercorallite area.

Remarks: A. divaricata is exceptionally plastic in its growth form ( Veron 2000), so this identification was based on the typical Y branching pattern and the characteristics of the coenosteum which fitted the description in Veron & Wallace (1984) and Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Scleractinia

Family

Acroporidae

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