Acropora elegans, Santodomingo & Wallace & Johnson, 2015
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https://doi.org/ 10.1111/zoj.12295 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AB216F-FFAF-F659-FC5B-FD3C7809FB86 |
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Felipe |
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Acropora elegans |
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ACROPORA ELEGANS View in CoL GROUP
Diagnosis
Species with lightly structured coralla, mostly with horizontal branching that are sparsely arranged and sometimes anastomosed. Radial corallites tubular or appressed tubular, evenly sized, sparsely distributed; coenostum formed of elaborated spinules, densely to moderately arranged. All eight recent species of this group occur in calm waters, in relatively deep-water sites for Acropora , mostly below 20 m depth ( Wallace, 1999; Wallace et al., 2012).
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