Acropora, Oken, 1815

Sola, Erwan, Silva, Isabel Marques da & Glassom, David, 2015, An annotated and illustrated checklist of species of the coral genus Acropora (Cnidaria: Scleractinia) from Vamizi Island, Mozambique, African Invertebrates 56 (3), pp. 807-807 : 829

Acropora latistella (Brook, 1892)

Fig. 19

Colony growth form: Corymbose plates. Slender branches with delicate upward projecting branchlets; corallum is light and crumbly.

Axial corallites: Outer diameter 1.7–2.2 mm; inner diameter 0.7–0.9 mm; exsert tubular with rounded openings with well developed first septal cycle, second cycle absent.

Radial corallites: Similar, appressed with oval opening; inner wall is not well defined and outer wall may project upward, especially toward branch tip where they can take a nariform appearance; septa are undeveloped.

Coenosteum: Dense lines of spinules on corallites; in intercorallite areas, spinules are more widely spaced but still in lines and slightly elaborated.

Figures

Fig. 19. Acropora latistella. Specimen number: (A–C, E) VAM55; (D) VAM10. (A) live colony; (B, E) radial corallites; (C) branch fragment; (D) axial corallite.