Acropora halmaherae Wallace & Wolstenholme 1998
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Acropora halmaherae Wallace & Wolstenholme, 1998
(Fig. 39)
Acropora halmaherae Wallace & Wolstenholme, 1998: 258, fig. 54.
Type locality. Halmahera, Indonesia.
MTQ Holdings. HOLOTYPE G51513, PARATYPES G51509–12 Indonesia; Indonesia: G63172 Halmahera; G61285, G63114, G57110 Irian Jaya; Papua New Guinea: G53312–15; Micronesia: G59272, G59302–05, G59643, G59649, G62574–77, G62604, G62692–93, G62820 Pohnpei; Marshall Is.: G57232.
Species group: horrida.
Description. Colony outline: indeterminate, predominantly arborescent. Branches: tertiary
branching order present; length:>1 0 0 mm; diameter: 5.0–9.9 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete; radial crowding: not touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10. Axial corallites: two synapticular rings; porous; outer diameter 1.3–2.2 mm; inner diameter 0.6–0.9 mm; primary septa to 2/3 R. Radial corallites: small; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: tubular; openings: oval-rounded; primary septa to 2/3 R. Coenosteum: same on and between radials: costate; spinule shape: elaborate. Further literature. Wallace (1999), Veron (2000).
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Wallace & Wolstenholme
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Order
- Scleractinia
- Family
- Acroporidae
- Genus
- Acropora
- Species
- halmaherae
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- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Acropora halmaherae Wallace, 1998 sec. Wallace, Done & Muir, 2012