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Acropora florida
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Description
ACROPORA FLORIDA GROUP
Diagnosis
Colonies usually hispidose. Radial corallites large, appressed tubular with thickened, lip-like lower wall, round calices, evenly sized. Radial and axial corallites make equal contribution to the branch diameter. Coenosteum on radial corallite walls costate or reticulocostate and between radial corallites reticulate with little development of simple spinules (Wallace, 1999). The two extant species Acropora florida (Dana, 1846) and Acropora sarmentosa (Brook, 1892) occur subtidally, and A. florida is one of the most commonly distribut- ed species on modern Indo-Pacific reefs (Wallace, 1999; Wallace et al., 2012). Four species were recognized among the fossil specimens from Indonesia.
Notes
Published as part of Santodomingo, Nadiezhda, Wallace, Carden C. & Johnson, Kenneth G., 2015, Fossils reveal a high diversity of the staghorn coral genera Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Neogene of Indonesia, pp. 677-763 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 175 (4) on page 718, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12295, http://zenodo.org/record/5339562
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.1111/zoj.12295 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5339562 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF925917FFEFF619FFE0FFD07C56FFBA (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03AB216FFFC6F630FC34FCA9796FFAF9 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Dana
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Order
- Scleractinia
- Family
- Acroporidae
- Genus
- Acropora
- Species
- florida
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Acropora florida (Dana, 1846) sec. Santodomingo, Wallace & Johnson, 2015
References
- Wallace CC. 1999. Staghorn corals of the world: a revision of the coral Genus Acropora (Scleractinia; Astrocoeniina; Acroporidae) worldwide, with emphasis on morphology, phylogeny and biogeography. Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing.
- Dana JD. 1846. Zoophytes. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U. S. 7: 1 - 740.
- Brook G. 1892. Preliminary descriptions of new species of Madrepora in the collections of the British Museum. Part II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10: 451 - 465.
- Wallace CC, Done BJ, Muir PR. 2012. Revision and catalogue of worldwide staghorn corals Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Museum of Tropical Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 57: 1 - 255.