Acropora solitaryensis 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 : 188

Acropora solitaryensis Veron & Wallace, 1984

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Acropora solitaryensis Veron & Wallace, 1984: 371 , figs 916, 922, 928.

Type locality. N. Solitary Island, Australia.

MTQ Holdings. HOLOTYPE G55082; Red Sea: G58874 Saudi Arabia; Socotra: G56953, G56966, G57400, G57415; Kenya: G54917, G59595–97, G59732; Comoros: G55092–93; Mayotte: G63208, G63281, G63404–09, G63426–27, G63437; Seychelles: G47949, G59448, G59451, G59455, G59463, G59466, G59470, G59492, G59495, G59525, G59534, G59557, G59571, G59577–78, G59586, G59591; Maldives: G59755, G59984, G59996–60008, G60322, G60355, G60376; Chagos: G54321; Sri Lanka: G56339–40; Thailand: G54832–33, G54836, G56103–12, G59323, G59335, G59426–27, G61738; Malaysia: G52621–22, G54997, G57751 mainland and islands; G40016, G53900–02 Sabah; Singapore: G41013–14; Hong Kong: G61779–84 Indonesia: G47189, G49654–57, G49708–0 9 Sumatra; G46698–99, G46984, G49705–07, G49712, G50097, G53680, G54093, G54125– 26, G59034, G59044, G59716, G59723 Bali; G51025–36 Nusa Tenggara; G49666–83, G49710–11, G50099–102, G50591, G54124 Alor; G54112–21, G54544 Lomblen; G48092 Lombok; G35973 Maluku; G49829–30 Riau; G54122–23 Tukangbesi Islands; G36180 Ambon; G49658–60, G49740 Flores; G49693–704, G49714, G50098, G51023–24 Kalimantan; G49662–64 Semau; G48083–91, G48094–100, G49650–53, G49685–92, G49713, G49739, G49741–42, G54094–97, G54229 Sulawesi; G54098–99, G54110–11, G54308 Molucca Sea; G52429– 35, G54100–09 Halmahera; G48076–82, G48093, G48653, G49649, G49738, G57113 Banda Sea; G49661, G49665 West Timor; G60757, G61280 Irian Jaya; G57094, G57098–99, G57105–0 6 Irian Jaya; Australia: G40465, G40467, G48789–94, G51546 West; G48137 North; G27010, G27492, G50690, G56918–19, G60516, G60595 Great Barrier Reef; G27006–07, G27009, G27011–14, G27482–84, G27486–91, G27493–504, G33194, G35798–99, G36163–71, G36173–75, G39854–56, G41080, G47055–62, G55083, G56553, G57493–95, G58397–98, G58489–90, G58504–05, G58512, G58517, G58839, G60098, G60107–15, G60234–36, G60403–04, G60406–07, G60409, G60414, G60445–46, G60449, G60455, G61750, G62805, G62822–23, G63118, G64817, G65006–12 South-East; G63801 Coral Sea; South China Sea: G37625–26, G46806–14, G52178–80, G52268, G52291–92, G52358–62; Japan: G38021, G47793, G62842–44, G62878–93, G62994; Taiwan: G45830–32, G45835–37, G46532, G47585, G47603; Philippines: G52318; Papua New Guinea: G35615, G52958–77, G53418, G53528, G61730; Micronesia: G41087–89 Kosrae; Solomon Is.: G57913–14, G58992; New Caledonia: G41108, G61202; Marshall Is.: G56210, G57285; Cook Is.: G35941–42; Austral Is.: G32875.

Species group: divaricata .

Description. Colony outline: determinate, predominantly table. Branches: tertiary branching order absent; length: 25–50 mm; diameter: 5.0–9.9 mm, radial-dominated, terete; radial crowding: some touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10. Axial corallites: three synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 1.6–3.4 mm; inner diameter 0.5–1.1 mm; primary septa to ½ R. Radial corallites: medium; three synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: nariform; openings: dimidiate; primary septa to 1/3 R. Coenosteum: different on and between radials: between radials: reticulate, on radials: reticulo-costate; spinule shape: forked. Further literature. Nishihira & Veron (1995), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Chan et al. (2004), Nomura & Mezaki (2005), Dai & Horng (2009), Wallace et al. (2009), Turak & DeVantier (2011).

Figures

FIG. 92. Acropora solitaryensis, G65008, Solitary Islands, 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.