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Wallace Et Al MTQ Catalogue Embedded Pics.Vp Memoirs of the Queensland Museum | Nature 57 Revision and catalogue of worldwide staghorn corals Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Museum of Tropical Queensland Carden C. Wallace, Barbara J. Done & Paul R. Muir © Queensland Museum PO Box 3300, South Brisbane 4101, Australia Phone 06 7 3840 7555 Fax 06 7 3846 1226 Email [email protected] Website www.qm.qld.gov.au National Library of Australia card number ISSN 0079-8835 NOTE Papers published in this volume and in all previous volumes of the Memoirs of the Queensland Museum may be reproduced for scientific research, individual study or other educational purposes. Properly acknowledged quotations may be made but queries regarding the republication of any papers should be addressed to the Director. Copies of the journal can be purchased from the Queensland Museum Shop. A Guide to Authors is displayed at the Queensland Museum web site www.qm.qld.gov.au A Queensland Government Project Typeset at the Queensland Museum Revision and Catalogue of Acropora and Isopora FIG. 113. Acropora vaughani, G63447, Mayotte, East Indian Ocean, 2010 (photo: P. Muir). Map of documented distribution: blue squares = MTQ specimens; pink squares = literature records; orange diamonds = type localities (where given), including primary synonyms. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum — Nature 2012 57 231 Wallace, Done & Muir Acropora verweyi Veron & Wallace, 1984 (Fig. 114) Acropora verweyi Veron & Wallace, 1984: 191, figs 446, Is.: G35707, G35711, G35928, G36059; French Polynesia: 449–450, 453. G39731, G58624; Pitcairn Is.: G54634–37, G63121. Type locality. Magdelaine Cay, Coral Sea. Species group: verweyi. MTQ Holdings. HOLOTYPE G55076 Coral Sea; Red Description. Colony outline: indeterminate, Sea: G58880 Saudi Arabia; Comoros: G55097; predominantly corymbose. Branches: tertiary Mayotte: G63313–14, G63378–79, G63440; Seychelles: G47911–13, G51889; Maldives: G59868; Thailand: branching order absent; length: 25–50 mm; G56070, G56085–86, G61748; Indonesia: G59069–70 diameter: 5.0–9.9 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete; Sumatra; G59195 Java; Australia: G40461, G60658–59, radial crowding: some touching; axial/radial G61687 West; G27074, G28958, G28963, G28966–67, ratio: >1:10. Axial corallites: two synapticular G29743–69, G29772–73, G29809, G33318–20, G33322–24, rings; not porous; outer diameter 2.8–3.5 mm; G33326, G33328–47, G33349–53, G41067, G58008, inner diameter 0.8–1.1 mm; primary septa to ¾ G58107 Great Barrier Reef; G33321, G33348, G34237, R. Radial corallites: medium; two synapticular G35801, G57486–87, G57827–28, G58488, G64983–84 South-East; G28959–60, G28962, G28965, G28968–69, rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; G57637 Coral Sea; South China Sea: G52226–27; shape: rounded appressed; openings: oval- Japan: G47794; Taiwan: G43851, G45915–16; rounded; primary septa to ¾ R. Coenosteum: Philippines: G52333; Palau: G60204; Guam: G40733, same on and between radials: open spinules; G40736, G40744, G40746, G40861; Micronesia: G62539 spinule shape: single point. Pohnpei; Chesterfield Atoll: G28961, G28970, G33325, G35688; Marshall Is.: G37548–49, G37966, G56223–24; Further literature. Nishihira & Veron (1995), Kiribati: G54974, G55004; Samoa: G34874, G41297, Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), G56035; Niue: G35807, G36065–66, G54507–09; Cook Veron (2000), Wallace et al. (2009). 232 Memoirs of the Queensland Museum — Nature 2012 57 Revision and Catalogue of Acropora and Isopora FIG. 114. Acropora verweyi, Lakshadweep Is., 2006 (photo: P. Muir). Map of documented distribution: blue squares = MTQ specimens; pink squares = literature records; orange diamonds = type localities (where given), including primary synonyms. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum — Nature 2012 57 233 Wallace, Done & Muir Acropora walindii Wallace, 1999 (Fig. 115) Acropora walindii Wallace, 1999: 310, pl. 86. radial crowding: not touching; axial/radial Type locality. Kimbe Bay, West New Britain, Papua ratio: <1:10. Axial corallites: greater than three New Guinea. synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter MTQ Holdings. HOLOTYPE G54648, PARATYPES 1.0–1.3 mm; inner diameter 0.3–0.5 mm; primary G53310, G54649–50 Papua New Guinea; Indonesia: septa to 2/3 R. Radial corallites: medium; greater G60743, G59377–80 Irian Jaya; Micronesia: G62626–28 than three synapticular rings; one size or graded; Pohnpei. inner wall developed; shape: appressed tubular; Species group: elegans. openings: oval-rounded; primary septa to 2/3 R. Description. Colony outline: indeterminate, Coenosteum: same on and between radials: predominantly arborescent. Branches: tertiary dense spinules; spinule shape: elaborate. branching order absent; length: 25–50 mm; Further literature. Veron (2000). diameter: 2.5–4.9 mm, axial-dominated, terete; 234 Memoirs of the Queensland Museum — Nature 2012 57 Revision and Catalogue of Acropora and Isopora FIG. 115. Acropora walindii, G62626, Pohnpei, Micronesia, 2009 (photo: P. Muir). Map of documented distribution: blue squares = MTQ specimens; pink squares = literature records; orange diamonds = type localities (where given), including primary synonyms. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum — Nature 2012 57 235 Wallace, Done & Muir Acropora willisae Veron & Wallace, 1984 (Fig. 116) Acropora willisae Veron & Wallace, 1984: 412, figs rings; not porous; outer diameter 0.9–2.6 mm; 1035–44. inner diameter 0.2–1.0 mm; primary septa to 2/3 Type locality. Britomart Reef, Great Barrier Reef, R. Radial corallites: medium; two synapticular Australia. rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; MTQ Holdings. HOLOTYPE G49313 Great Barrier shape: appressed tubular; openings: oval-rounded; Reef, Australia; Australia: G29503, G29507, G47385, primary septa to ¼ R. Coenosteum: same on G57597 Great Barrier Reef; Japan: G51174; Papua and between radials: open spinules; spinule New Guinea: G53599–08, G61732–33. shape: blunt irregular. Description. Colony outline: indeterminate, Further literature. Nishihira & Veron (1995), predominantly corymbose. Branches: tertiary Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), branching order absent; length: <25 mm; Veron (2000), Nomura & Mezaki (2005), Turak diameter: 2.5–4.9 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete; & DeVantier (2011). radial crowding: some touching; axial/radial ratio: <1:10. Axial corallites: two synapticular 236 Memoirs of the Queensland Museum — Nature 2012 57 Revision and Catalogue of Acropora and Isopora FIG. 116. Acropora willisae, Indonesia (photo: C. Wallace). Map of documented distribution: blue squares = MTQ specimens; pink squares = literature records; orange diamonds = type localities (where given), including primary synonyms. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum — Nature 2012 57 237 Wallace, Done & Muir Acropora yongei Veron & Wallace, 1984 (Fig. 117) Acropora yongei Veron & Wallace, 1984: 294, figs 719, China Sea: G46825–26; Japan: G35486, G36825, 723. G36829, G62997; Taiwan: G47586; Philippines: Type locality. Britomart Reef, Great Barrier Reef, G41697, G52316; Palau: G36532, G56874, G56905; Australia. Papua New Guinea: G35639, G52851–62, G63136; Louisiade Archipelago: G35364, G35369; New MTQ Holdings. Holotype G55079 Great Barrier Reef, Caledonia: G41112–14, G61020; Kiribati: G54979, Oman: Maldives: Australia; G40955; G53034–35; G54990; Johnston Atoll: G40990, G40994. Chagos: G51365, G54319; Malaysia: G53899 Sabah Indonesia: G59071 Sumatra; G50232, G50252–53, Description. Colony outline: indeterminate, G59179 Bali; G50939–40 Nusa Tenggara; G50227–31, predominantly arborescent. Branches: tertiary G50244–47 Alor; G47532, G47535 Lombok; G50745 branching order absent; length: >100 mm; Seribu Is; G36224 Ambon; G50224–26, G50941, diameter: 5.0–9.9 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete; G53858 Flores; G50238–41, G50250–51 Kalimantan; radial crowding: not touching; axial/ radial G50243 Semau; G34188, G47522–31, G47533–34, G47536, G50233–37, G50242–49, G50766–68, G50938, ratio: >1:10. Axial corallites: two synap ticular G54010–18, G56624, G58862, G59046, G59092 Sulawesi; rings; porous; outer diameter 1.8–3.5 mm; inner G54021–22 Molucca Sea; G52441, G54019–20 diameter 0.8–1.2 mm; primary septa to 2/3 R. Halmahera; G47484, G47515–21, G48160, G58950 Radial corallites: medium; two synapticular Banda Sea; Australia: G40869 West; G27097, G27112, rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; G27115, G27118–19, G27137, G27142–45, G27159, shape: dimidiate/lipped; openings: cochleariform; G27219, G27229–31, G29169, G29444–48, G29450–51, G29666–77, G29679–81, G30203, G30205, G41254–63, primary septa to ½ R. Coenosteum: different on G49231, G51123, G58011, G60599, G61766 Great and between radials: between radials: reticulate, Barrier Reef; G27108–11, G27113–14, G27116–17, on radials: costate; spinule shape: single point. G27138–39, G27141, G27212–14, G27216–18, G27220–22, Further literature. Nishihira & Veron (1995), G27225–27, G59363, G60140, G60151, G62797–802, Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), G64991 South-East; G33496, G27228 Coral Sea; South Veron (2000), Turak & DeVantier (2011). 238 Memoirs of the Queensland Museum — Nature 2012 57 Revision and Catalogue of Acropora and Isopora FIG. 117. Acropora yongei, G64991, Flinders Reef, East Australia, 2011 (photo: P. Muir). Map of documented distribution: blue squares = MTQ specimens; pink squares = literature records; orange diamonds = type localities (where given), including primary synonyms. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum — Nature 2012 57 239 Wallace, Done & Muir Isopora Studer, 1878 Isopora Studer,
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