Acropora papillare Latypov, 1992

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 : 148

Acropora papillare Latypov, 1992

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Acropora papillare Latypov, 1992: 121 , fig. 6.

Acropora indiana Wallace, 1994: 963 , fig. 4.

Type locality. Vietnam (holotype IMBR).

MTQ Holdings. G46445 HOLOTYPE of A. indiana from Rowley Shoals, Western Australia; G39763, G46444 PARATYPE of A. indiana , Western Australia; G47037 PARATYPE of A. indiana Ambon; G46415–18 PARATYPES of A. indiana Banda Sea ; Indonesia: G48566–67 Alor; G48561–62 Flores; G48620 Semau; G51577, G55459, G57648 Sulawesi; G48563–65, G48621 West Timor; Australia: G38371, G39765–67, G40792, G41154, West; G48368, G48400, G58244–50, G58270–76, G58339–49, G58377–79, G62289–92, G63938 Great Barrier Reef.

Species group: aspera .

Description. Colony outline: indeterminate, predominantly arborescent. Branches: tertiary

branching order absent; length: 5 0–100 mm; diameter:>19.9 mm, axial-dominated, tapering; radial crowding: some touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10. Axial corallites: three synapticular rings; porous; outer diameter 2.7–3.4 mm; inner diameter 0.8–1.6 mm; primary septa to 1/3 R. Radial corallites: medium; two synapticular rings; two sizes; inner wall not developed; shape: dimidiate/lipped; openings: horizontal lip; primary septa to 1/3 R. Coenosteum: different on and between radials: between radials: reticulate, on radials: costate; spinule shape: single point.

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

Figures

FIG. 72. Acropora papillare, G62289, Orpheus I., North Queensland, Australia, 2008 (photo: P. Muir). Map of documented distribution: blue squares = MTQ specimens; pink squares = literature records; orange diamonds = type localities (where given), including primary synonyms.