Acropora russelli 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 : 174

Acropora russelli Wallace, 1994

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Acropora russelli Wallace, 1994: 983 , fig. 26.

Type locality. Cartier Reef, Timor Sea.

MTQ Holdings. HOLOTYPE G40795, PARATYPES G40782, G40794, G40796–97 Timor Sea, Australia; Mauritius: G59353; Sri Lanka: G55765; Indonesia: G51486–97, G52422, G63169–71 Halmahera; G60745 Irian Jaya.

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 synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 1.6–2.2 mm; inner diameter 0.5–1.0 mm; primary septa to 1 R. Radial corallites: small; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: appressed tubular; openings: oval-rounded; primary septa to 2/3 R. Coenosteum: same on and between radials: dense spinules; spinule shape: elaborate.

Further literature. Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000).

Figures

FIG. 85. Acropora russelli, Papua New Guinea (Photo: E. Turak). Map of documented distribution: blue squares = MTQ specimens; pink squares = literature records; orange diamonds = type localities (where given), including primary synonyms.