Acropora verweyi Veron & Wallace, 1984

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 : 232

Acropora verweyi Veron & Wallace, 1984

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Acropora verweyi Veron & Wallace, 1984: 191 , figs 446, 449–450, 453.

Type locality. Magdelaine Cay, Coral Sea.

MTQ Holdings. HOLOTYPE G55076 Coral Sea; Red Sea: G58880 Saudi Arabia; Comoros: G55097; Mayotte: G63313–14, G63378–79, G63440; Seychelles: G47911–13, G51889; Maldives: G59868; Thailand: G56070, G56085–86, G61748; Indonesia: G59069–70 Sumatra; G59195 Java; Australia: G40461, G60658–59, G61687 West; G27074, G28958, G28963, G28966–67, G29743–69, G29772–73, G29809, G33318–20, G33322–24, G33326, G33328–47, G33349–53, G41067, G58008, G58107 Great Barrier Reef; G33321, G33348, G34237, G35801, G57486–87, G57827–28, G58488, G64983–84 South-East; G28959–60, G28962, G28965, G28968–69, G57637 Coral Sea; South China Sea: G52226–27; Japan: G47794; Taiwan: G43851, G45915–16; Philippines: G52333; Palau: G60204; Guam: G40733, G40736, G40744, G40746, G40861; Micronesia: G62539 Pohnpei; Chesterfield Atoll: G28961, G28970, G33325, G35688; Marshall Is.: G37548–49, G37966, G56223–24; Kiribati: G54974, G55004; Samoa: G34874, G41297, G56035; Niue: G35807, G36065–66, G54507–09; Cook Is.: G35707, G35711, G35928, G36059; French Polynesia: G39731, G58624; Pitcairn Is.: G54634–37, G63121.

Species group: verweyi .

Description. Colony outline: indeterminate, predominantly corymbose. Branches: tertiary branching order absent; length: 2 5–50 mm; diameter: 5.0–9.9 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete; radial crowding: some touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10. Axial corallites: two synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 2.8–3.5 mm; inner diameter 0.8–1.1 mm; primary septa to ¾ R. Radial corallites: medium; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: rounded appressed; openings: ovalrounded; primary septa to ¾ R. Coenosteum: same on and between radials: open spinules; spinule shape: single point.

Further literature. Nishihira & Veron (1995), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Wallace et al. (2009).

Figures

FIG. 114. Acropora verweyi, Lakshadweep Is., 2006 (photo: P. Muir). Map of documented distribution: blue squares = MTQ specimens; pink squares = literature records; orange diamonds = type localities (where given), including primary synonyms.