Acropora chesterfieldensis Veron & Wallace, 1984: 403
Revision and catalogue of worldwide staghorn corals Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Museum of Tropical Queensland
Wallace, Carden C.
Done, Barbara J.
Muir, Paul R.
Memoirs of the Queensland Museu Nature
2012
2012-06-30
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Veron & Wallace, 1984
Veron & Wallace
1984
[264,1097,179,208]
Anthozoa
Acroporidae
Acropora
GBIF
Animalia
Scleractinia
41
40
Cnidaria
species
chesterfieldensis
( Fig. 18)
Acropora chesterfieldensisVeron & Wallace, 1984: 403, figs 1012–1017.
Type locality.Chesterfield Reefs. MTQ Holdings.HOLOTYPE G55081 Australia:G27938, G27946, G27949 Great Barrier Reef; G27935–37, G27952, G35887, G39851 Coral Sea; New Caledonia:G27939–45, G27947–48, G27950–51, G27953–54, G38248, G38252 Chesterfield Atoll: G34990; Marshall Is.:G56147, G57311–12; Niue:G36027.
Species group: loripes Description. Colony outline:indeterminate, predominantly corymbose. Branches:tertiary branching order absent; length: <25 mm; diameter: 5.0–9.9 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete; radial crowding: some touching; axial/radial ratio: <1:10. Axial corallites:three synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 1–3 mm; inner diameter 0.7–1.0 mm; primary septa to ½ R. Radial corallites:medium; three synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: appressed tubular; openings: ovalrounded; primary septa to ¼ R. Coenosteum:same on and between radials: dense spinules; spinule shape: elaborate.
Further literature.Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Turak & DeVantier (2011).