Acropora prolifera Lamarck 1816 ...

• Main Authors: Wallace, Carden C., Done, Barbara J., Muir, Paul R.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Scleractinia; Acroporidae; Acropora; Acropora prolifera; Lamarck; Queensland; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6168808; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6168808

Acropora prolifera (Lamarck, 1816) hybrid entity Madrepora prolifera Lamarck, 1816: 281. Madrepora ethica Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1861: 32. Type locality. Southern Ocean (holotype MNHN). MTQ Holdings. Bahamas: G54473–74, G54499–500; Mexico: G48426–28; Venezuela: G51967–70; Virgin Is.: G33176. Species group: cervicornis. Description. Colony outline: determinate, predominantly corymbose. Branches: tertiary branching order absent; length: 5 0–100 mm; diameter: 10.0–19.9 mm, axial-dominated, terete; radial crowding: some touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10. Axial corallites: two synapticular rings; porous; outer diameter 1.4–3.0 mm; inner diameter 0.6–1.5 mm; primary septa to ½ R. Radial corallites: large; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: nariform; openings: oval-rounded; primary septa to 1/3 R. Coenosteum: different on and between radials: between radials: reticulo-costate, on radials: costate; spinule shape: single point. Taxonomic note. This is now recognised as ... : Published as part of 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, pp. 1-258 in Memoirs of the Queensland Museu Nature 57 on page 158, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2163512 ...