Acropora turaki Wallace, 1994

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 : 222

Acropora turaki Wallace, 1994

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Acropora turaki Wallace, 1994: 468 , fig. 8.

Type locality. Rowley Shoals, Western Australia.

MTQ Holdings. HOLOTYPE G46446, PARATYPE G46447 Western Australia; Thailand: G52646 Indonesia: G49007–09 Bali; G49005–06 Kalimantan; G47701, G48680, G48855–63, G55426, G58791, G58792 Sulawesi; G52436–38 Halmahera; Australia: G46447, G56984–85; Palau: G60435, G60444; Papua New Guinea: G39736, G53317; Micronesia: G59297, G59641, G62350–54, G62712 Pohnpei; Solomon Is.: G58534–35, G58591.

Species group: echinata .

Description. Colony outline: indeterminate, predominantly hispidose. Branches: tertiary branching order present; length: 25–50 mm;

diameter: 2.5–4.9 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete; radial crowding: not touching; axial/radial ratio: <1:10. Axial corallites: two synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 1.5–2.0 mm; inner diameter 0.4–0.8 mm; primary septa to 1/3 R. Radial corallites: medium; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: appressed tubular; openings: oval-rounded; primary septa absent. Coenosteum: same on and between radials: dense spinules; spinule shape: elaborate.

Further literature. Wallace (1997, 1999), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Veron (2000).

Figures

FIG. 109. Acropora turaki G62354, Pohnpei, Micronesia, 2009 (photo: P. Muir). Map of documented distribution: blue squares = MTQ specimens; pink squares = literature records; orange diamonds = type localities (where given), including primary synonyms.