Acropora dendrum Bassett-Smith 1890
Description
Acropora dendrum (Bassett-Smith, 1890)
Madrepora dendrum Bassett-Smith, 1890: 452.
Type locality. Macclesfield Banks, China Sea (lectotype NHM).
MTQ Holdings. Thailand: G52642, G55998; Australia: G27268–70, G27272–73, G27275–78, G27380, G27382 Great Barrier Reef; Philippines: G41560; Papua New Guinea: G53316; New Caledonia: G40880. Chesterfield Atoll: G27274.
Species group: selago.
Description. Colony outline: determinate, predominantly corymbose. Branches: tertiary branching order absent; length: 2 5–50 mm; diameter: 5.0–9.9 mm, axial-dominated, terete;
radial crowding: not touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10. Axial corallites: two synapticular rings; porous; outer diameter 1.4–2.2 mm; inner diameter 0.5–1.2 mm; primary septa to ¾ R. Radial corallites: medium; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall not developed; shape: dimidiate/lipped; openings: cochleariform; primary septa to 2/3 R. Coenosteum: same on and between radials: reticulate; spinule shape: laterally flattened.
Further literature. Nishihira & Veron (1995), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Turak & DeVantier (2011).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Acroporidae
- Genus
- Acropora
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Scleractinia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Scientific name authorship
- Bassett-Smith
- Species
- dendrum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Acropora dendrum Bassett-Smith, 1890 sec. Wallace, Done & Muir, 2012