Madrepora elegans Milne Edwards & Haime, 1860: 163 Acropora magnifica Nemenzo, 1971: 148 Revision and catalogue of worldwide staghorn corals Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Museum of Tropical Queensland Wallace, Carden C. Done, Barbara J. Muir, Paul R. Memoirs of the Queensland Museu Nature 2012 2012-06-30 57 1 258      Acropora elegans(Milne Edwards & Haime, 1860)   ( Fig. 30)    Madrepora elegansMilne Edwards & Haime, 1860: 163, pl. E1 fig. 3.   Acropora magnificaNemenzo, 1971: 148, pl. 3 fig. 1.   Type locality.unknown (holotype MNHN).  Indonesia:G55124 Flores; G56509, G58636, G59381 Sulawesi; G63166 Halmahera; G60785–89, G60791–93, G60989 Irian Jaya; Australia:G63661–66 Great Barrier Reef; G63660 Coral Sea; Micronesia:G62365 Pohnpei.   Species group: elegans.  Description. Colony outline:determinate, predominantly plate or layered plates. Branches:tertiary branching order absent; length: 25–50 mm; diameter: 2.5–4.9 mm, axial-dominated, terete; radial crowding: not touching; axial/ radial ratio: <1:10. Axial corallites:two synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 0.8–2.1 mm; inner diameter 0.4–0.8 mm; primary septa to 2/3 R. Radial corallites:small; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: tubular; openings: ovalrounded; primary septa to ½ R. Coenosteum:same on and between radials: dense spinules; spinule shape: elaborate.   Taxonomic note.  Acroporaelegansreported by Wallace (1997) from the Hermit Isles, Papua New Guinea was found to be a new species,  A. pichoniWallace, 1999.  Further literature.Veron & Nishihira (1995), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Turak & DeVantier (2011), Bridge et al.(2012).