Acropora suharsonoi Wallace, 1994

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 : 206

Acropora suharsonoi Wallace, 1994

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Acropora suharsonoi Wallace, 1994: 937 , fig. 12.

Type locality. Gilli Trawangan, Lombok, Indonesia.

MTQ Holdings. HOLOTYPE G47134, PARATYPES G47135, G47136 Indonesia; Indonesia: G48853–54, G51303, G51304 Bali; G50527 Flores.

Species group: loripes.

Description. Colony outline: indeterminate, predominantly plate. Branches: tertiary branching order absent; length: <25 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 1.6–2.2 mm; inner diameter 0.6–0.8 mm; primary septa to 1 R. Radial corallites: medium; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: appressed tubular; openings: oval-rounded; primary septa to 2/3 R. Coenosteum: same on and between radials: dense spinules; spinule shape: blunt irregular.

Further literature. Wallace (1997, 1999), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Veron (2000).

Figures

FIG. 101. Acropora suharsoni, 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.