Acropora latistella (Brook 1892) Brook 1892
- Dataset
- Revision and catalogue of worldwide staghorn corals Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Museum of Tropical Queensland
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Cnidaria
- class
- Anthozoa
- order
- Scleractinia
- family
- Acroporidae
- genus
- Acropora
- species
- Acropora latistella
description
(Fig. 52)
description
Description. Colony outline: determinate, predominantly corymbose. Branches: tertiary branching order absent; length: 5 0 – 100 mm; diameter: 2.5 – 4.9 mm, radial-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 – 0.9 mm; primary septa to ¾ R. Radial corallites: small; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall not developed; shape: appressed tubular; openings: oval-rounded; primary septa to 2 / 3 R. Coenosteum: same on and between radials: costate; spinule shape: single point.
discussion
Further literature. Nishihira & Veron (1995), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Pillay et al. (2002), Dai & Horng (2009), Wallace et al. (2009), Turak & DeVantier (2011).
materials_examined
Type locality. Port Denison, Australia (lectotype NHM). MTQ Holdings. Red Sea: G 54826 Yemen; Kenya: G 54918 – 19; South Africa: G 41041 – 42; Mayotte: G 63283 – 89, G 63348 – 52, G 63418, G 63438; Seychelles: G 47936; La R é union: G 54782 – 83; Mauritius: G 39782, G 51819 – 20, G 54469, G 54534 – 35, G 54912; Maldives: G 52091, G 59778, G 59959 – 61, G 60318, G 61618; Chagos: G 51355 – 57, G 51362, G 51440 – 43, G 51749, G 51751 – 53; Thailand: G 52643; Malaysia: G 57665, G 57757 mainland and islands; G 40197 Sabah; Singapore: G 45892; Indonesia: G 50139 Sumatra; G 50771, G 59200 Java; G 49909, G 54070 Bali; G 58648 Nusa Tenggara; G 49893 – 98, G 49959, G 50144, G 50605, G 53852, G 58639 – 40, G 58642 – 45 Alor; G 54090 Lomblen; G 48039, G 48152, G 50138 Lombok; G 49819 – 20 Riau; G 54091 – 92, G 54424 Tukangbesi Islands; G 43815, G 50943, G 50944 Taka’bonerate; G 50735 – 37 Seribu Is; G 36217, G 48142, G 50770 Ambon; G 49884 – 90, G 50140 – 41, G 50942 Flores; G 49905 – 0 8, G 50147 – 48, G 50604 Kalimantan; G 50142 – 43 Semau; G 34189, G 35514, G 47974, G 48143 – 51, G 49881 – 83, G 49899 – 904, G 49910, G 50137, G 50145 – 46, G 50614, G 50769, G 54071 – 76, G 54130, G 54230, G 54453, G 58647 Sulawesi; G 54077, G 54089 Molucca Sea; G 54078 – 88 Halmahera; G 48139 – 41, G 49880 Banda Sea; G 49891 – 92 West Timor; G 36038 Irian Jaya; Australia: G 36055, G 40455, G 40457, G 47006 – 07, G 48706 – 11, G 48905 – 11, G 51545, G 60619, G 60656, G 61093 – 94, G 61680 West; G 48131 – 34, G 48136, G 48492, G 51271 North; G 27641, G 27643 – 46, G 27648, G 27663 – 68, G 27670, G 27672, G 27746 – 47, G 27749 – 50, G 27752, G 27754 – 57, G 27759, G 27762, G 27765 – 66, G 27769, G 27773, G 27960 – 61, G 27963 – 65, G 27969 – 71, G 28789, G 28791 – 94, G 28796 – 97, G 28799 – 804, G 28806 – 0 7, G 29921 – 25, G 29928 – 31, G 29933, G 30355, G 30594, G 30598, G 31159, G 32209 – 11, G 32402 – 04, G 33153, G 33155 – 57, G 34229, G 43323, G 43580, G 48318, G 55485, G 57514, G 57544, G 57549, G 57595, G 57982, G 58002, G 58014, G 58039, G 58112, G 58402, G 58527, G 59010 – 11, G 59015, G 59029 – 32, G 60505, G 60546, G 62816 – 18, G 64613 – 14, G 64706, G 64784 Great Barrier Reef; G 27647, G 28798, G 28809 – 10, G 30595 – 97, G 30599 – 603, G 30691 – 705, G 30707 – 08, G 30745, G 35802 – 0 3, G 41078 – 79, G 47284, G 60062, G 65001 – 04 South-East; G 27751, G 27758, G 27761, G 27774, G 27955 – 56, G 27959, G 27962, G 27968, G 28790, G 30706, G 33154, G 35871, G 35873 – 76, G 39841, G 57614, G 57627, G 57634, G 60561 Coral Sea; Japan: G 38023, G 47741 – 43, G 47807, G 62298; Taiwan: G 35541, G 45906 – 12, G 45923 – 25, G 45928 – 29, G 47610; Palau: G 55007, G 56633; Papua New Guinea: G 52927 – 31, G 53555 – 56, G 53592, G 53610 – 12, G 53721, G 61737; Micronesia: G 37994 Chuuk; G 40814, G 62475 – 77, G 62479, G 62538, G 62559, G 62562 Pohnpei; G 62759 Kosrae; Solomon Is.: G 52588; New Caledonia: G 34950, G 40887, G 58704, G 61045; Vanuatu: G 35600; Chesterfield Atoll: G 27748, G 27753, G 27760, G 27763, G 27771 – 72, G 27957 – 58, G 27967, G 28795, G 29926, G 29932, G 38148, G 58916; Marshall Is.: G 37960, G 47223 – 24, G 56326, G 56173 – 74; Kiribati: G 54961, G 54970 – 72, G 59676; Tuvalu: G 35605; Fiji: G 35599; Samoa: G 54268, G 56031; Niue: G 36028, G 36103, G 54668; Cook Is.: G 35693, G 35725, G 35856, G 53914, G 55543; French Polynesia: G 39730; Tuamotu Archipelago: G 32863; Austral Is.: G 35870; Pitcairn Is.: G 35741 – 43, G 54617 – 19, G 63120. Species group: latistella.