Acropora elegans (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1860), 1815
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Acropora elegans (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1860) |
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Acropora elegans (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1860) View in CoL
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Madrepora elegans Milne Edwards & Haime, 1860: 163 , pl. E1 fig. 3.
Acropora magnifica Nemenzo, 1971: 148 View in CoL , pl. 3 fig. 1.
Type locality. unknown (holotype MNHN).
Indonesia: G55124 Flores; G56509, G58636, G59381 Sulawesi; G63166 Halmahera; G60785–89, G60791–93, G60989 Irian Jaya; Australia: G63661–66 Great Barrier Reef; G63660 Coral Sea; Micronesia: G62365 Pohnpei.
Species group: elegans.
Description. Colony outline: determinate, predominantly plate or layered plates. Branches: tertiary branching order absent; length: 25–50 mm; diameter: 2.5–4.9 mm, axial-dominated, terete; radial crowding: not touching; axial/ radial ratio: <1:10. Axial corallites: two synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 0.8–2.1 mm; inner diameter 0.4–0.8 mm; primary septa to 2/3 R. Radial corallites: small; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: tubular; openings: ovalrounded; primary septa to ½ R. Coenosteum: same on and between radials: dense spinules; spinule shape: elaborate.
Taxonomic note. Acropora elegans reported by Wallace (1997) from the Hermit Isles, Papua New Guinea was found to be a new species, A. pichoni Wallace, 1999 .
Further literature. Veron & Nishihira (1995), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Turak & DeVantier (2011), Bridge et al. (2012).
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Acropora elegans (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1860)
Wallace, Carden C., Done, Barbara J. & Muir, Paul R. 2012 |
Acropora magnifica
Nemenzo 1971: 148 |
Madrepora elegans
Milne Edwards & Haime 1860: 163 |