Acropora squarrosa (Ehrenberg, 1834)

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 : 196

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.2163512

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6168851

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scientific name

Acropora squarrosa (Ehrenberg, 1834)
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Acropora squarrosa (Ehrenberg, 1834) View in CoL

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Heteropora squarrosa Ehrenberg, 1834: 112 View in CoL

Acropora maryae Veron, 2000 View in CoL , vol. 1: 392; 2002: 60–62, figs 117–122.

Type locality. Red Sea (holotype MNB).

MTQ Holdings. Red Sea: G54477; G55785 HOLOTYPE of A. maryae ; G57787 Egypt; G54843–45, G55186, G55269, G57048, G58876, G58877 Saudi Arabia.

Species group: loripes.

Description. Colony outline: determinate, predominantly corymbose. Branches: tertiary branching order absent; length: 25–50 mm; diameter: 5.0–9.9 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete; radial crowding: not touching; axial/radial ratio: <1:10. Axial corallites: two synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 2.2–4.2 mm; inner diameter 0.4–0.8 mm; primary septa to 2/3 R. Radial corallites: medium; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: appressed tubular; openings: oval-round- ed; primary septa to ¼ R. Coenosteum: same on and between radials: dense spinules; spinule shape: elaborate.

Taxonomic note. Acropora maryae is placed in synonymy with A. squarrosa because the holotype G55785 falls within the range of variation of characters of speciments in this collection, which have been compared with the Ehrenberg type of A. squarrosa.

Further literature: Sheppard & Sheppard (1991), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Veron (2002).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Scleractinia

Family

Acroporidae

Genus

Acropora

Loc

Acropora squarrosa (Ehrenberg, 1834)

Wallace, Carden C., Done, Barbara J. & Muir, Paul R. 2012
2012
Loc

Acropora maryae

Veron 2000
2000
Loc

Heteropora squarrosa

Ehrenberg 1834: 112
1834
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