Acropora tanegashimensis Veron, 1990

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 : 210

Acropora tanegashimensis Veron, 1990

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Acropora tanegashimensis Veron, 1990: 109 , figs 13–14. Type locality. Sumiyoshi, Tanegashima, Japan.

MTQ Holdings. HOLOTYPE G32477; Japan: G62308, G62311–12, G62315, G62321–22, G62349, G62346–47. Species group: hyacinthus .

Description. Colony outline: determinate, predominantly table. Branches: tertiary branching order absent; length: 25–50 mm; diameter: 5.0–9.9 mm, radial-dominated, terete; radial crowding: most touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10. Axial corallites: two synapticular rings; porous; outer diameter 1.1–1.3 mm; inner diameter 0.6–0.8 mm; primary septa to 1/3 R. Radial corallites: medium; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall not developed; shape: dimidiate/lipped; openings: oval-rounded; primary septa to ¾ R. Coenosteum: different on and between radials: between radials: reticulate, on radials: costate; spinule shape: single point.

Further literature. Sheppard & Sheppard (1991), Veron & Nishihira (1995), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Pillay et al. (2002), Chan et al. (2004), Nomura & Mezaki (2005).

Figures

FIG. 103. Acropora tanegashimensis, G62315, Tanegashima Is. Japan, 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.