ACROPORIDAE Verrill

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 : 6

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6168637
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scientific name	ACROPORIDAE Verrill
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Treatment

Family ACROPORIDAE Verrill View in CoL , 190 1

Acropora Oken, 1815 View in CoL

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

Type locality. Gunung Api I., Banda Is, Indonesia. Type species. Millepora muricata Linnaeus, 1758; neotype MTQ G49167, designated Wallace (1999: 2–5, fig. 3, p. 182)

Diagnosis. Acroporidae which are ramose, rarely massive or encrusting, branching with single axial or leading corallites larger than the numerous radial corallites budded from them; radial corallites variously differentiated in shape; coenosteum light, reticulate, spinose, costate or pseudocostate; columella and dissepiments absent. Paleocene to Recent.

Further literature. Verrill (1901), Wells (1936), Wallace (1978), Veron & Wallace (1984), Veron (2000).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Cnidaria
Class	Anthozoa
Order	Scleractinia
Family	Acroporidae