Acropora nasuta (Dana 1846) Dana 1846
- 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 nasuta
description
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description
Species group: nasuta. Description. Colony outline: determinate, predominantly corymbose. Branches: tertiary branching order absent; length: 5 0 – 100 mm; diameter: 10.0 – 19.9 mm, radial-dominated, terete; radial crowding: most touching; axial / radial ratio:> 1: 10. Axial corallites: three synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 1.4 – 3.0 mm; inner diameter 0.5 – 1.1 mm; primary septa to ¾ R. Radial corallites: medium; three synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: nariform; openings: oval-rounded; primary septa to 2 / 3 R. Coenosteum: different on and between radials: between radials: reticulate, on radials: reticulocostate; spinule shape: laterally flattened.
discussion
Taxonomic note. A. diomedeae is removed from the synonymy of A. nasuta and confirmed as a synonym of A. listeri (see note under A. listeri). Further literature: Sheppard & Sheppard (1991), Nishihira & Veron (1995), Wallace & Wolsten- holme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Pillay et al. (2002), Dai & Horng (2009), Wallace et al. (2009), Turak & DeVantier (2011).
materials_examined
Type locality. Tahiti (lectotype NMNH-SI). MTQ Holdings. Red Sea: G 55575 Egypt; G 54771, G 55248 – 09 Saudi Arabia; G 54777 Sudan; G 53542 – 43, G 54751 – 52, G 54773 – 76, G 55573 Yemen; Oman: G 40951, G 40959; Socotra: G 56961, G 57405; Kenya: G 35573 – 74, G 54926 – 27, G 58935, G 58940; Mayotte: G 63321 – 22, G 63380 – 84, G 63432; Seychelles: G 47941 – 42, G 51863, G 59481, G 59485, G 59488, G 59512, G 59520, G 59529, G 59545 – 46, G 59559, G 59574, G 59588; La R é union: G 54781; Mauritius: G 51813 – 14, G 54898; Rodriguez: G 54785; Maldives: G 52005, G 52074 – 75, G 53026 – 29, G 59803 – 07, G 59962 – 66, G 60328, G 60347, G 60369, G 61627; Chagos: G 51434, G 51448 – 52; Thailand: G 32805, G 55879 – 85, G 56009, G 56454 – 56, G 56471 – 76, G 59338, G 59422; Malaysia: G 52618, G 57676, G 59152 mainland and islands; G 40023, G 40188, G 53919 Sabah; Indonesia: G 58692, G 47177, G 47190 – 92, G 49552 – 56, G 49718, G 50131 Sumatra; G 50791, G 32835, G 32840, G 59199 Java; G 49570, G 49575 – 76, G 50132 – 34, G 54283, G 59180 Bali; G 49564 – 69, G 50454 Alor; G 48020 Lombok; G 35965 Maluku; G 49861 – 68 Riau; G 54298 – 99, G 54416 – 20 Tukangbesi Islands; G 43817, G 50946 – 47 Taka’bonerate; G 50730 – 31 Seribu Is; G 36210, G 48014, G 50128 Ambon; G 49557 – 62 Flores; G 39812, G 49573 – 74, G 50597 Kalimantan; G 34174, G 35506 – 09, G 35819, G 48015 – 19, G 49571 – 72, G 50129 – 30, G 50135 – 36, G 50948, G 54284 – 85, G 55455, G 59386 Sulawesi; G 54131, G 54286 – 87, G 54296 – 97, G 54541 Molucca Sea; G 54132, G 54288 – 95 Halmahera; G 48008 – 13, G 50125 – 27 Banda Sea; G 49563 West Timor; G 60761 Irian Jaya; Australia: G 36049, G 36052, G 40464, G 47011 – 12, G 48721 – 24, G 51547, G 52459 – 77, G 52544 – 72, G 52689 – 715, G 60622, G 60627, G 60638, G 60648 – 50, G 60663, G 61664, G 61671 West; G 51265, G 54738, G 58977, G 58980 – 81 North; G 27028, G 27046, G 27065, G 27081, G 27251, G 28925 – 29, G 28931 – 33, G 29235 – 39, G 29241, G 29636 – 39, G 29641, G 29643 – 47, G 29650 – 51, G 29867 – 68, G 29870 – 71, G 30132 – 33, G 30135, G 30138, G 30140 – 42, G 30144 – 47, G 30248, G 30250 – 53, G 30256, G 30261 – 67, G 30269, G 30271, G 30274 – 76, G 30435, G 30437, G 30439, G 30441, G 30444, G 30446 – 47, G 30739, G 30741 – 42, G 30744, G 30761, G 30763, G 30765, G 30767 – 68, G 30770 – 71, G 30773 – 75, G 30799 – 801, G 30803 – 06, G 30809 – 10, G 30854 – 57, G 30860 – 62, G 31042 – 46, G 31048 – 49, G 32215, G 32469 – 70, G 34150, G 35025, G 35125, G 37403, G 39877, G 40904 – 5, G 40975, G 40977, G 47293, G 47388, G 47633 – 35, G 48249 – 51, G 48292, G 48317, G 49244, G 50694, G 51145 – 50, G 55487 – 90, G 55514, G 57538, G 57547 – 48, G 57550, G 57607 – 0 8, G 58001, G 58018, G 58022, G 58062, G 58905, G 60226, G 60556, G 61761, G 64673, G 64725 Great Barrier Reef; G 29865, G 29869, G 29872, G 30772, G 30808, G 58420, G 58425, G 58429, G 60088, G 60117, G 64993 – 95 South-East; G 29240, G 29866, G 30134, G 30136, G 30258, G 30260, G 30268, G 30272, G 30436, G 30442 – 43, G 30445, G 30448, G 30743, G 30764, G 30766, G 30802, G 30807, G 33461, G 33484, G 33489, G 33503, G 33510, G 35880, G 57615, G 57620, G 60559 Coral Sea; South China Sea: G 52191 – 07, G 52264 – 66, G 52363; Japan: G 36834 – 35, G 38013, G 38028, G 38040, G 38048, G 38051, G 38056, G 47747 – 51, G 62297, G 62333, G 62860; Taiwan: G 35499, G 45844; Philippines: G 32825, G 41699 – 01, G 45852 – 53, G 52376 – 77; Palau: G 56636 – 37; Guam: G 53629, G 53647; Papua New Guinea: G 35621 – 22, G 35633, G 35651, G 35895 – 96, G 52916 – 26, G 53414, G 53609; Micronesia: G 40716, G 40772 Yap; G 40754, G 40824, G 59265, G 62394 – 97, G 62463 – 64 Pohnpei; G 62730 – 32, G 62754 – 57 Kosrae; Solomon Is.: G 52122 – 29, G 52606 – 0 7, G 52750, G 58566; New Caledonia: G 34964, G 34981, G 35009, G 61026, G 61222, G 61224; Chesterfield Atoll: G 30277, G 30438, G 30440, G 38149, G 38249, G 58913 – 15; Marshall Is.: G 33145, G 37957, G 37965, G 37967, G 37972, G 37978, G 37982, G 47228 – 29, G 56175 – 78, G 57286 – 87; Kiribati: G 33108 – 09, G 54808 – 16, G 54819, G 54949 – 52, G 54975 – 76, G 54987, G 54991; Fiji: G 33295, G 33298, G 33300; Samoa: G 33296 – 97, G 33299, G 34723, G 34728, G 34749, G 34869, G 34877, G 36641, G 36645, G 41190 – 91, G 43457, G 43458, G 43466; Niue: G 54998, G 35854, G 36132, G 54515 – 22, G 54678; Line Is.: G 59692; Cook Is.: G 35696, G 35700, G 35708, G 35710, G 35726, G 35848, G 36057 – 58, G 36062 – 64, G 46691 – 93, G 49330; French Polynesia: G 35545, G 53577 – 80, G 53589, G 58768; Tahiti: G 33082, G 53586, G 54699, G 58966, G 58969; Austral Is.: G 35988; Pitcairn Is.: G 32873, G 35746 – 47, G 43827, G 54622 – 27, G 54646.