Acropora torihalimeda Wallace 1994
Description
Acropora torihalimeda Wallace, 1994
Acropora torihalimeda Wallace, 1994: 983, fig. 24.
Type locality. Swains Reef, eastern Australia.
MTQ Holdings. HOLOTYPE G27200; Australia: G46095 East.
Species group: elegans.
Description. Colony outline: indeterminate, predominantly free living–arborescent. Branches: tertiary branching order absent; length: 25–50 mm; diameter: <2.5 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete; radial crowding: not touching; axial/ radial ratio: <1:10. Axial corallites: two synap-
ticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 1.4–1.4 mm; inner diameter 0.8–0.8 mm; primary septa to ½ R. Radial corallites: small; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: tubular; openings: ovalrounded; primary septa absent. Coenosteum: same on and between radials: dense spinules; spinule shape: elaborate.
Further literature. 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
- Wallace
- Species
- torihalimeda
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Acropora torihalimeda Wallace, 1994 sec. Wallace, Done & Muir, 2012