نبذة مختصرة : Acropora sarmentosa (Brook, 1892) Madrepora sarmentosa Brook, 1892: 462; 1893: 127, pl. 22. Acropora vermiculata Nemenzo, 1967: 108, pl. 31 fig. 4. Type locality. Port Denison, Queensland (lectotype NHM). MTQ Holdings. Indonesia: G51175 Java; G39803 Kalimantan; G55435 Sulawesi; G54540 Halmahera; Australia: G38663, G40456 West; G27049, G27083, G27899���902, G27904���0 5, G27907���11, G27913���14, G27916���17, G28239���40, G28578, G28581, G28584���89, G28591���96, G28765, G28767, G28772���73, G28775���78, G28780���82, G28784, G28787, G29023���24, G29026���29, G29393���94, G29396���400, G29402���05, G29409, G29411���12, G30329, G30331, G32464, G34230, G35123���24, G39864, G39881, G39944, G40906, G40985, G47626���29, G51092���95, G51299, G55483, G57031���33, G59017, G60513, G60562, G60593, G64715 Great Barrier Reef; G28590, G28766, G28771, G28774, G28785, G58399, G58432, G58507, G60089, G64151 South-East; G27906, G28786, G29025, G29401, G57624, G57632, G57873, G60565, G64775 Coral Sea; Japan: G62855; Taiwan: G47613; Philippines: G32809, G41949, G45863; Papua New Guinea: G53108���29; Solomon Is.: G52107, G58050; New Caledonia: G33103, G34953, G58726, G59172, G61027; Chesterfield Atoll: G27903, G27912, G28579, G28582���83, G29407, G58919; Samoa: G34772; Cook Is.: G35731; Austral Is.: G35806. Species group: florida. Description. Colony outline: determinate, predominantly corymbose. Branches: tertiary branching order absent; length: 25���50 mm; diameter: 5.0���9.9 mm, 50/50 axial/radial, terete; radial crowding: most touching; axial/ radial ratio:>1:10. Axial corallites: three synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 3.0���4.0 mm; inner diameter 1.0���2.0 mm; primary septa to �� R. Radial corallites: large; three synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall not developed; shape: appressed tubular; openings: oval-rounded; primary septa to 2/3 R. Coenosteum: different on and between radials: between radials: reticulate, on radials: reticulate; spinule shape: single point. Further literature. Nishihira & Veron (1995), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Dai & Horng (2009), Turak & DeVantier (2011).
Published as part of Wallace, Carden C., Done, Barbara J. & Muir, Paul R., 2012, Revision and catalogue of worldwide staghorn corals Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Museum of Tropical Queensland, pp. 1-258 in Memoirs of the Queensland Museu Nature 57 on page 178, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2163512
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