Acropora paniculata Verrill, 1902

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 : 146

Acropora paniculata Verrill, 1902

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Acropora paniculata Verrill, 1902: 259 , pl. 36D figs 7, 10, 10A, pl. 36E fig. 5.

Type locality. uncertain (holotype (fragment) YPM). MTQ Holdings. Red Sea: G51165 Egypt; Mayotte: G63250–54, G63353–59 Maldives: G60288, G60321, G60326, G60329–30, G60335–36, G60342–45, G60348–49, G60356, G60361, G60364, G60367, G60371, G61619, G61628–30; Chagos: G51364; Malaysia: G54994; Indonesia: G50670, G50679 Bali; G50662–69 Alor; G54437 Lomblen; G50660–61 Lombok; G54134, G54183, G54435–36, G54547 Tukangbesi Islands; G50935 Taka’bonerate; G50677–78 Kalimantan; G50657–59, G50671–76, G50936, G54174–76 Sulawesi; G52418, G54177–82 Halmahera; G48681, G50654–56, G58898 Banda Sea; G60727, G60731, G60735–36, G61002, G61066, G61275, G57108 Irian Jaya; Australia: G41148 West; G28603, G28605–16, G28622–24, G57992, G58106, G60536, G60580, G63786 Great Barrier Reef; G28597–600, G28604, G28617–21, G39836, G57871, G63787–91, G63793, G63816, G63826, G64785, G64801 Coral Sea; South China Sea: G52339–41; Palau: G56628; Papua New Guinea: G35632, G53519–25, G53529–37, G54555–56, G54653–56, G59703, G61429 North: G41148 Timor Sea; Micronesia: G59291, G59376, G59650, G62495–96, G62565–67, G62569, G62592 Pohnpei; Solomon Is.: G55564–65, G58530, G58565, G58568; New Caledonia: G61016; Marshall Is.: G33129, G56158, G57234, G57235; Kiribati: G54962; Samoa: G43459; Johnston Atoll: G40986; French Polynesia: G44036.

Species group: hyacinthus .

Description. Colony outline: determinate, predominantly table. Branches: tertiary branching order absent; length: <25 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; porous; outer diameter 1.2–1.9 mm; inner diameter 0.4–0.8 mm; primary septa to ½ R. Radial corallites: small; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall not developed; shape: dimidiate/lipped; openings: elongate lip; primary septa to ¼ R. Coenosteum: different on and between radials: between radials: reticulate, on radials: costate; spinule shape: blunt irregular.

Further literature: Nishihira & Veron (1995), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Turak & DeVantier (2011).

Figures

FIG. 71. Acropora paniculata, G63252, 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.