Isopora palifera (Lamarck 1816) Lamarck 1816
- Dataset
- Revision and catalogue of worldwide staghorn corals Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Museum of Tropical Queensland
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Cnidaria
- class
- Anthozoa
- order
- Scleractinia
- family
- Acroporidae
- genus
- Isopora
- species
- Isopora palifera
description
(Fig. 121)
description
Description. Colony outline: indeterminate, predominantly cuneiform. Branches: tertiary branching order absent; length:> 100 mm; diameter:> 19.9 mm, axial-dominated, reverse tapering; radial crowding: some touching; axial / radial ratio:> 1: 10. Axial corallites: greater than three synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 2.8 – 4.2 mm; inner diameter 0.7 – 1.4 mm; primary septa to 1 R. Radial corallites: large; greater than three synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: appressed tubular; openings: dimidiate; primary septa to 1 R. Coenosteum: same on and between radials: dense spinules; spinule shape: meandroid elaborate.
discussion
Taxonomic note. This is the type species of Isopora. See Wallace et al. (2007). Further literature. Nishihira & Veron (1995), Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Dai & Horng (2009), Turak & DeVantier (2011).
materials_examined
MTQ Holdings. Socotra: G 56951; Mayotte: G 63202 – 06; Seychelles: G 46420 – 21, G 59471; La R é union: G 33211; Maldives: G 52011, G 59773 – 75, G 60350 – 51; Chagos: G 51344 – 48, G 51764; Thailand: G 56081 – 84; Indonesia: G 46624, G 48401 – 03, G 48423 Sumatra; G 32847 Java; G 48879, G 48903 – 04, G 48925 – 26 Bali; G 48390, G 48414 – 22 Alor; G 47459 – 60 Lombok; G 35760 Maluku; G 51575 Tukangbesi Islands; G 48404 – 10 Flores; G 48894 – 902 Kalimantan; G 48413 Semau; G 34176 – 78, G 47146 – 58, G 47208 – 09, G 48880 – 93, G 51560 – 61, G 51576, G 55461, G 55469, G 55477 – 78, G 55715 Sulawesi; G 51562 – 63, G 51571 – 72 Molucca Sea; G 51564 – 70, G 51573 – 74 Halmahera; G 46233 – 34, G 46410 – 14 Banda Sea; G 48411 – 12 West Timor; Australia: G 40787 West; G 28518 – 21, G 28525, G 28528, G 28530, G 28533, G 28535 – 36, G 28541, G 28544 – 48, G 28553 – 54, G 29473, G 29602 – 0 3, G 29605 – 06, G 30320 – 21, G 30323 – 24, G 30326 – 27, G 30361 – 63, G 30365 – 66, G 30369 – 76, G 30378 – 79, G 30381, G 30385 – 87, G 31157, G 34233, G 39857, G 43349 – 76, G 43381 – 93, G 43397 – 99, G 43577, G 55481, G 57600, G 57983, G 64638, G 64718, G 64747 Great Barrier Reef; G 28517, G 28523 – 24, G 28526, G 28543, G 28549, G 30322, G 30384, G 39456 South-East; G 28527, G 28538, G 28542, G 28550 – 51, G 30328, G 30359, G 30367, G 30377, G 30380, G 30382 – 83, G 43377 – 80, G 43394 – 96, G 63802 Coral Sea; Taiwan: G 35498, G 45935, G 45938; Palau: G 36228 – 29, G 56634, G 60199; Papua New Guinea: G 35908, G 53160 – 76; Micronesia: G 40727 – 28, G 40763, G 40770 Yap; G 62403 Pohnpei; G 62763 – 65 Kosrae; New Caledonia: G 34956, G 34983, G 36016, G 49044, G 54846 – 47, G 58719, G 58745, G 59165, G 61029, G 61030; Chesterfield Atoll: G 30325, G 30360, G 30364, G 30368, G 31912, G 38152, G 38242; Marshall Is.: G 56168 – 69, G 56216; Samoa: G 39455.