Acropora willisae 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 : 236

Acropora willisae Veron & Wallace, 1984

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Acropora willisae Veron & Wallace, 1984: 412 , figs 1035–44.

Type locality. Britomart Reef, Great Barrier Reef, Australia.

MTQ Holdings. HOLOTYPE G49313 Great Barrier Reef, Australia; Australia: G29503, G29507, G47385, G57597 Great Barrier Reef; Japan: G51174; Papua New Guinea: G53599–08, G61732–33.

Description. Colony outline: indeterminate, predominantly corymbose. Branches: tertiary branching order absent; length: <25 mm; diameter: 2.5–4.9 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete; radial crowding: some touching; axial/radial ratio: <1:10. Axial corallites: two synapticular

rings; not porous; outer diameter 0.9–2.6 mm; inner diameter 0.2–1.0 mm; primary septa to 2/3 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: open spinules; spinule shape: blunt irregular.

Further literature. Nishihira & Veron (1995), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Nomura & Mezaki (2005), Turak & DeVantier (2011).

Figures

FIG. 116. Acropora willisae, Indonesia (photo: C. Wallace). Map of documented distribution: blue squares = MTQ specimens; pink squares = literature records; orange diamonds = type localities (where given), including primary synonyms.