Acropora awi Wallace & Wolstenholme, 1998

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 : 24

Acropora awi Wallace & Wolstenholme, 1998

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Acropora awi Wallace & Wolstenholme, 1998: 332 , fig. 128.

Type locality. Bangu I., Togian Is., Indonesia.

MTQ Holdings. HOLOTYPE G50646, PARATYPES G50647–53 Indonesia; Indonesia: G47736 Lombok; G47730–35, G51730, G55425 Sulawesi; G51731–38, G51919, G63157 Halmahera; G57114–15 Banda Sea; G50644–45 West Timor; G60770–71, G61229 Irian Jaya; Palau: G56850, G56860; Papua New Guinea: G53318–22; Micronesia: G59288, G62513, G62568, G62631, G62678–83 Pohnpei; Marshall Is.: G57241.

Species group: echinata .

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

branching order present; length: 25–50 mm; diameter: 2.5–4.9 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete; radial crowding: not touching; axial/ radial ratio: <1:10. Axial corallites: two synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 1.6–2.5 mm; inner diameter 0.7–1.0 mm; primary septa to ¾ R. Radial corallites: medium; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: appressed tubular; openings: oval-rounded; primary septa to ¼ R. Coenosteum: same on and between radials: costate; spinule shape: elaborate.

Further literature. Wallace (1999), Veron (2000).

Figures

FIG. 10. Acropora awi, G62568, Pohnpei, Micronesia, 2009 (photo: P. Muir). Map of documented distribution: blue squares = MTQ specimens; pink squares = literature records; orange diamonds = type localities (where given), including primary synonyms.