Acropora tenuis (Dana, 1846)

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 : 214

Acropora tenuis (Dana, 1846)

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Madrepora tenuis Dana, 1846: 451 .

Madrepora macrostoma Brook, 1891: 464; 1893: 105, pl. 19 fig. B.

Madrepora bifaria Brook, 1892: 453; 1893 p.110, pl. 30 fig. A.

Madrepora kenti Brook, 1892: 458; 1893: 110, pl. 11 fig. B.

Acropora plana Nemenzo, 1967: 93, pl. 27 fig. 3.

Type locality. Fiji (holotype NMNH-SI).

MTQ Holdings. Kenya: G58936; Mayotte: G63320, G63439; Seychelles: G47932, G49219, G51859–61, G59456; Mauritius: G51821–24, G51874, G54914–16; Maldives: G52000, G52079, G52097, G53032–33, G59756–57, G59867, G60260, G60315, G60338, G60340, G61623; Chagos: G51341–43, G51765, G51767; Thailand: G32800–01, G52645, G55955, G56477–83; Malaysia: G52626 mainland and islands; G40025 Sabah; Indonesia: G47164, G48639–43 Sumatra; G50772–73 Java; G52038 Bali; G50954 Nusa Tenggara; G48651–52 Alor; G47476 Lombok; G49821 Riau; G52055–56 Tukangbesi Islands; G50752–53 Seribu Is; G47029 Ambon; G48644–49 Flores; G39825, G50119–24 Kalimantan; G34175, G47462–75, G50105, G50112–18, G52039–43, G53737, G54300 Sulawesi; G52054 Molucca Sea; G52044–53 Halmahera; G36219, G46861–66, G46966 Banda Sea; G48650 West Timor; Australia: G48701–02, G51278, G52446, G52665, G60630, G60655, G61666 West; G48127, G51277 North; G27015, G27054, G27078, G27102–3, G27189, G27232, G27234–38, G27246–50, G27252–55, G27279–86, G27288–90, G27292, G27294–99, G27381, G27711, G28167, G28444–45, G28449–55, G28457, G29057–64, G29308, G29310, G29312–13, G29315–16, G29480, G29898–906, G29908, G29910–12, G30121, G31175, G32214, G32447–48, G32455–56, G34145, G34149, G34225, G34241, G35014–15, G35138–42, G39879, G40909, G41100–04, G47642, G48305, G48325, G49331, G51097, G54322,

G57603, G58409, G60564, G60568, G63895, G64739, G64754 Great Barrier Reef; G29909, G60130–31, G64981 South-East; G27233, G27291, G27293, G28447, G29309, G29907, G35879, G60547, G63792 Coral Sea; South China Sea: G52158–66; Japan: G38033, G38041, G47787; Taiwan: G43841, G45839, G45941; Palau: G56632; Guam: G40735, G53634; Papua New Guinea: G35638, G35897–98, G53272–88; Micronesia: G40766–67, G40776 Yap; G37995, G40755, G40807, G40815, G62385–87, G62651 Pohnpei; Solomon Is.: G52602; New Caledonia: G33093, G35002; Chesterfield Atoll: G27287, G28448, G29311, G29314, G29317; Marshall Is.: G33146, G56161, G56231–32; Fiji: G40941; Cook Is.: G35929.

Species group: selago.

Description. Colony outline: determinate, predominantly corymbose. Branches: tertiary branching order absent; length: 2 5–50 mm; diameter: 5.0–9.9 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete; radial crowding: most touching; axial/ radial ratio:>1:10. Axial corallites: two synapticular rings; porous; outer diameter 1.8–3.4 mm; inner diameter 0.8–1.2 mm; primary septa to 1/3 R. Radial corallites: medium; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: dimidiate/lipped; openings: cochleariform; primary septa to 2/3 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), Pillay et al. (2002), Turak & DeVantier (2011).

Figures

FIG. 105. Acropora tenuis, G59756, N. Vabbinfaru, Maldives, 2006 (photo: P. Muir). Map of documented distribution: blue squares = MTQ specimens; pink squares = literature records; orange diamonds = type localities (where given), including primary synonyms.