Acropora loisetteae 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 : 112

Acropora loisetteae Wallace, 1994

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Acropora loisetteae Wallace, 1994: 965 , fig. 6.

Type locality. Scott Reef, Western Australia.

MTQ Holdings. HOLOTYPE G46442, PARATYPE G46443 Western Australia; Thailand: G61753; Malaysia: G53920, G55024 Sabah; Indonesia: G59093 Sulawesi; G61422 Irian Jaya; Papua New Guinea: G59110–12; Marshall Is.: G57125–38.

Species group: selago.

Description. Colony outline: indeterminate, predominantly arborescent. Branches: tertiary branching order absent; length:>100 mm; diameter: 2.5–4.9 mm, radial-dominated, terete;

radial crowding: not touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10. Axial corallites: two synapticular rings; porous; outer diameter 2.3–2.8 mm; inner diameter 1.2–1.6 mm; primary septa to 1 R. Radial corallites: medium; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: dimidiate/lipped; openings: cochleariform; primary septa to ¼ R. Coenosteum: same on and between radials: costate; spinule shape: no spinules.

Further literature. Wallace (1999), Veron (2000).

Figures

FIG. 54. Acropora loisetteae, Indonesia (photo: C. Wallace). Map of documented distribution: blue squares = MTQ specimens; pink squares = literature records; orange diamonds = type localities (where given), including primary synonyms.