Acropora bushyensis Veron & Wallace, 1984

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, Memoirs of the Queensland Museu Nature 57, pp. 1-258 : 28

Acropora bushyensis Veron & Wallace, 1984

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Acropora bushyensis Veron & Wallace, 1984: 187 , figs 440–41, 444.

Acropora fasciculare Latypov, 1992: 120 , pl. 5 figs 1, 2. Type locality. Bushy Island-Redbill, Reef Great Barrier Reef.

MTQ Holdings. HOLOTYPE G55078 Great Barrier Reef; Thailand: G55381, G55359, G59314, G59325–7, G59336; Australia: G51261 North; G27062–64, G28078– 99, G38974, G47624–25, G51186 Great Barrier Reef; G34190, G60237, G64147–50 South-East; Solomon Is.: G52593; New Caledonia: G41109; Marshall Is.: G56198; Cook Is.: G55317.

Species group: lovelli .

Description. Colony outline: determinate, predominantly corymbose. Branches: tertiary

branching order absent; length: 2 5–50 mm; diameter: 10.0–19.9 mm, axial-dominated, terete; radial crowding: not touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10. Axial corallites: two synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 1.8–3.5 mm; inner diameter 0.7–1.5 mm; primary septa to ¾ R. Radial corallites: medium; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: rounded appressed; openings: ovalrounded; primary septa to ¼ R. Coenosteum: same on and between radials: reticulate; spinule shape: single point.

Further literature. Wallace (1999), Veron (2000).

Figures

FIG. 12. Acropora bushyensis, Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, 2012 (photo: K. Hay, UQ). Map of documented distribution: blue squares = MTQ specimens; pink squares = literature records; orange diamonds = type localities (where given), including primary synonyms.