Acropora, OKEN, 1815

Santodomingo, Nadiezhda, Wallace, Carden C. & Johnson, Kenneth G., 2015, Fossils reveal a high diversity of the staghorn coral genera Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Neogene of Indonesia, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 175 (4), pp. 677-763 : 696

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1111/zoj.12295
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5415702
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AB216F-FFFC-F60A-FC5D-FEC4786EFBA8
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Acropora
status

Treatment

GENUS ACROPORA OKEN, 1815 View in CoL

Acropora Oken, 1815, p. 66 View in CoL ; [validated ICZN 1963 ( Boschma, 1961; China, 1963)]

Type species

Acropora muricata ( Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL .

Type locality

Recent, Indonesia, Ambon.

Neotype

Museum of Tropical Queensland G49167.

Diagnosis

Acroporidae that are ramose, rarely encrusting, branching with a single or leading corallite larger that the numerous radial corallites budded from it; corallites united by light reticulate, spinose, costate or pseudocostate coenosteum; columella and dissepiments absent ( Wallace, 1999).

Occurrence

Palaeocene to Recent.