Acropora striata (Verrill, 1866)

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 : 200

Acropora striata (Verrill, 1866)

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Madrepora striata Verrill, 1866: 24 ; 1901: 251, pl. 36 figs 4–4a, pl. 36A figs 4–4a, pl. 36F fig. 7.

Type locality. Ousima Japan (syntype NMNH-SI).

MTQ Holdings. Red Sea: G62979 Saudi Arabia; Mayotte: G63415–16, G63207, G63421; Seychelles: G59469, G59472; Mauritius: G59123; Maldives: G59748, G59949–51, G59983, G60352, G61634; Thailand: G55934; Indonesia: G50106–07 Bali; G53857 Flores; G48953–54, G50490 Kalimantan; G48945–52, G50104, G50318, G50489, G52036–37, G55415, G57649 Sulawesi; G58945 Banda Sea; Australia: G40451, G60645 West; G58258, G59012, G60552 Great Barrier Reef; G49875, G57872, G64776 Coral Sea; Japan: G36827–28; Palau: G56645–46, G56851; Papua New Guinea: G53255, G53621–24, G53626–28, G59113; Micronesia: G59249, G59647, G62384, G62492–94, G62506–0 9, G62561, G62573, G62641–45 Pohnpei; Solomon Is.: G52576, G52583–84, G59005; New Caledonia: G59174, G61046, G61223; Chesterfield Atoll: G38618–19; Marshall Is.: G33141, G33152, G37476–77, G37481, G37553, G56162–63, G56228–30, G57162–65, G57313–15; Kiribati: G54960, G54973; Samoa: G56019; Niue: G36029, G54510–11, G54667, G54670, G54671; Cook Is.: G55536; French Polynesia: G44034, G58650, G58655.

Species group: selago.

Description. Colony outline: indeterminate, predominantly hispidose. Branches: tertiary branching order present; length: 25–50 mm; diameter: 5.0–9.9 mm, radial-dominated, terete; radial crowding: most touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10. Axial corallites: two synapticular rings; porous; outer diameter 1.6–2.4 mm; inner diameter 0.8–1.1 mm; primary septa to ½ R. Radial corallites: medium; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: dimidiate/lipped; openings: cochleariform; primary septa to 1/3 R. Coenosteum: different on and between radials: between radials: reticulate, on radials: costate; spinule shape: single point.

Further literature. Nishihira & Veron (1995), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Pillay et al. (2002), Turak & DeVantier (2011).

Figures

FIG. 98. Acropora striata, G63416, Mayotte, East Indian Ocean, 2010 (photo: P. Muir). Map of documented distribution: blue squares = MTQ specimens; pink squares = literature records; orange diamonds = type localities (where given), including primary synonyms.