Acropora indonesia Wallace 1997

Acropora indonesia Wallace, 1997

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Acropora indonesia Wallace, 1997: 35, fig. 7.

Type locality. Bangka Island, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

MTQ Holdings. HOLOTYPE G47901 Indonesia, paratypes: see below; Thailand: G36146–49, G56115–19, G56052–57, G59329, G59409, G59424; Malaysia: G59153; Indonesia:, G53659 Sumatra; G49633, G53761, G59719 Bali; G48698, PARATYPE G48699, G59084 Alor; G54542 Tukangbesi Islands; G49011 Seribu Is; PARATYPE G48693 Ambon; G53660 Flores; G48940, PARATYPE G48941, G48944 Kalimantan; G48697 Semau; G35532, PARATYPES G47894–99, G47900, PARATYPE G47902, G47903–07, G48545, G48692, PARATYPE G48939, PARATYPE G48942, G48943, G49012– 13, PARATYPE G49014, G49535, G50014, G50493, G54220–23 Sulawesi; G54228 Molucca Sea; G54224–27 Halmahera; PARATYPE G47891, G47892, PARATYPE G47893, G48544, G58900, G58947 Banda Sea; PARATYPE G48695, G48696, G61057 Irian Jaya.

Species group: hyacinthus

Description. Colony outline: determinate, predominantly arborescent-table. Branches: tertiary branching order absent; length: <25 mm; diameter: 2.5–4.9 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete; radial crowding: not touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10. Axial corallites: two synapticular rings; porous; outer diameter 1.5–2.2 mm; inner diameter 0.6–1.0 mm; primary septa to 1 R. Radial corallites: small; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: nariform; openings: elongate lip; primary septa to ¼ R. Coenosteum: different on and between radials: between radials: reticulate, on radials: costate; spinule shape: blunt irregular. Further literature. Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000).