Acropora torihalimeda 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 : 216

Acropora torihalimeda Wallace, 1994

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Acropora torihalimeda Wallace, 1994: 983 , fig. 24.

Type locality. Swains Reef, eastern Australia.

MTQ Holdings. HOLOTYPE G27200; Australia: G46095 East.

Species group: elegans.

Description. Colony outline: indeterminate, predominantly free living–arborescent. Branches: tertiary branching order absent; length: 25–50 mm; diameter: <2.5 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete; radial crowding: not touching; axial/ radial ratio: <1:10. Axial corallites: two synap-

ticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 1.4–1.4 mm; inner diameter 0.8–0.8 mm; primary septa to ½ R. Radial corallites: small; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: tubular; openings: ovalrounded; primary septa absent. Coenosteum: same on and between radials: dense spinules; spinule shape: elaborate.

Further literature. Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Turak & DeVantier (2011).

Figures

FIG. 106. Acropora torihalimeda G46095 from Swains Reef, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, 2006 (specimen from sled sample at 63 m). Map of documented distribution: blue squares = MTQ specimens; pink squares = literature records; orange diamonds = type localities (where given), including primary synonyms.