Acropora globiceps Dana 1846
Description
Acropora globiceps (Dana, 1846)
Madrepora globiceps Dana, 1846: 454, pl. 34 fig. 3.
Type locality. Tahiti (holotype NMNH SI).
MTQ Holdings. Australia: G60453 South-East; G39834 Coral Sea; Niue: G36079, G36105, G36107– 0 8, G49020–24, G54512; Cook Is.: G35931, G35943–44, G36080–85, G36115, G36122, G49053 French Polynesia: G44041, G56681–85, G58767; Society Is.: G49061; Pitcairn Is.: G35748–49, G35753, G49037, G49040–42. Species group: humilis.
Description. Colony outline: determinate, predominantly corymbose. Branches: tertiary branching order absent; length: 5 0–100 mm; diameter: 10.0–19.9 mm, axial-dominated, reverse
tapering; radial crowding: some touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10. Axial corallites: greater than three synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 3.0–4.5 mm; inner diameter 1.2–2.1 mm; primary septa to ½ R. Radial corallites: medium; greater than three synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: tubular; openings: dimidiate; primary septa to ¼ R. Coenosteum: same on and between radials: reticulo-costate; spinule shape: elaborate.
Further literature. Wallace (1999), Veron (2000).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Acroporidae
- Genus
- Acropora
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Scleractinia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Scientific name authorship
- Dana
- Species
- globiceps
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Acropora globiceps Dana, 1846 sec. Wallace, Done & Muir, 2012