Acropora yongei Veron & Wallace, 1984

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 : 238

Acropora yongei Veron & Wallace, 1984

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Acropora yongei Veron & Wallace, 1984: 294 , figs 719, 723.

Type locality. Britomart Reef, Great Barrier Reef, Australia.

MTQ Holdings. Holotype G55079 Great Barrier Reef, Australia; Oman: G40955; Maldives: G53034–35; Chagos: G51365, G54319; Malaysia: G53899 Sabah Indonesia: G59071 Sumatra; G50232, G50252–53, G59179 Bali; G50939–40 Nusa Tenggara; G50227–31, G50244–47 Alor; G47532, G47535 Lombok; G50745 Seribu Is; G36224 Ambon; G50224–26, G50941, G53858 Flores; G50238–41, G50250–51 Kalimantan; G50243 Semau; G34188, G47522–31, G47533–34, G47536, G50233–37, G50242–49, G50766–68, G50938, G54010–18, G56624, G58862, G59046, G59092 Sulawesi; G54021–22 Molucca Sea; G52441, G54019–20 Halmahera; G47484, G47515–21, G48160, G58950 Banda Sea; Australia: G40869 West; G27097, G27112, G27115, G27118–19, G27137, G27142–45, G27159, G27219, G27229–31, G29169, G29444–48, G29450–51, G29666–77, G29679–81, G30203, G30205, G41254–63, G49231, G51123, G58011, G60599, G61766 Great Barrier Reef; G27108–11, G27113–14, G27116–17, G27138–39, G27141, G27212–14, G27216–18, G27220–22, G27225–27, G59363, G60140, G60151, G62797–802, G64991 South-East; G33496, G27228 Coral Sea; South

China Sea: G46825–26; Japan: G35486, G36825, G36829, G62997; Taiwan: G47586; Philippines: G41697, G52316; Palau: G36532, G56874, G56905; Papua New Guinea: G35639, G52851–62, G63136; Louisiade Archipelago: G35364, G35369; New Caledonia: G41112–14, G61020; Kiribati: G54979, G54990; Johnston Atoll: G40990, G40994.

Description. Colony outline: indeterminate, predominantly arborescent. Branches: tertiary branching order absent; length:>100 mm; diameter: 5.0–9.9 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete; radial crowding: not touching; axial/ radial ratio:>1:10. Axial corallites: two synapticular rings; porous; outer diameter 1.8–3.5 mm; inner diameter 0.8–1.2 mm; primary septa to 2/3 R. Radial corallites: medium; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: dimidiate/lipped; openings: cochleariform; primary septa to ½ R. Coenosteum: different on and between radials: between radials: reticulate, on radials: costate; spinule shape: single point. Further literature. Nishihira & Veron (1995), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Turak & DeVantier (2011).

Figures

FIG. 117. Acropora yongei, G64991, Flinders Reef, East Australia, 2011 (photo: P. Muir). Map of documented distribution: blue squares = MTQ specimens; pink squares = literature records; orange diamonds = type localities (where given), including primary synonyms.