Acropora abrolhosensis Veron, 1 985, 1815

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 : 6

Acropora abrolhosensis Veron, 1 985

( Fig. 1 )

Acropora abrolhosensis Veron, 1985: 147 , figs 3–4.

Type locality. Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia (holotype WAM).

MTQ Holdings. HOLOTYPE, G40448 fragment of A. abrolhosensis holotype from WAM; G55800 holotype of A. gomezi from Indonesia; Thailand: G56448–50; Malaysia: G57755 mainland and islands; G40029 Sabah; Indonesia: G50389, G53870, G57749 Java; G49246–47, G49371 Bali; G49367 Flores; G47477–82, G47702–3, G49368–70, G50388, G50487–88, G51771 Sulawesi; G51773 Molucca Sea; G51772, G52399–401, G54307 Halmahera; G46859–60 Banda Sea; G50387 West Timor; G60752 Irian Jaya; Australia: G40783, G40785, G40798 North; Philippines: G45866; Palau: G56859, G56891; Papua New Guinea: G45791, G53323; Micronesia: G38010 Chuuk; G62607, G62637– 40 Pohnpei; Marshall Is.: G57236–38.

Species group: horrida .

Description. Colony outline: indeterminate, predominantly arborescent. Branches: tertiary branching order present; length:>1 0 0 mm;

diameter: 10.0–19.9 mm, radial-dominated, terete; radial crowding: not touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10. Axial corallites: two synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 2.5–3.5 mm; inner diameter 0.9–1.5 mm; primary septa to ½ R. Radial corallites: very large; two synap- ticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: tubular; openings: oval- rounded; primary septa to ¼ R. Coenosteum: same on and between radials: costate; spinule shape: blunt irregular.

Taxonomic note. The holotypes of A. abrolhos- ensis and A. gomezi were re-examined and found to be similar in the above characters. The entry for A. abrolhosensis in Veron, 2000: 256 includes a field photograph of A. pulchra (fig. 2) and appears to cover features that do not fit the original type description.

Further literature. Nishihira & Veron (1995), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999).

Figures

FIG. 1. Acropora abrolhosensis, G62637, 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.