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Acropora
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Octocorallia
Order:
Scleractinia
Suborder:
Astrocoeniina
Family:
Acroporidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Acropora OKEN, 1815
Type Species:
Millepora muricata LINNÉ, 1758
Images
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Fig. 264,2a. A. formosa (Dana), Rec., Formosa, X0.2. -- Fig. 264,2b. A. tubicinaria (Dana), Bikini, Marshall I., X4
Synonyms
Heteropora, Isopora, Conocyathus, Distichocyathus, Eumadrepora, Lepidocyathus, Odontocyathus, Polystachys, Rhabdocyathus, Trachylopora, Tylopora
Geographic Distribution
Eu.-W.Indies-N.Am.IndoPac.
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Eoc.
Beginning International Stage:
Ypresian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
56
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Rec.
Ending International Stage:
Meghalayan
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
0
Description
Ramose, rarely massive or incrusting, branches with an axial or leading corallite larger than the more numerous radial corallites budded from it, united by light, reticulate, spinose or pseudocostate coenosteum. Columella and dissepiments absent. [The most important and protean genus of hermatypic corals, with more than 200 living species representing about 40 per cent of living scleractinians; not yet satisfactorily divided sub-generically.]
References
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Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Octocorallia
Order:
Scleractinia
Suborder:
Astrocoeniina
Family:
Acroporidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Acropora OKEN, 1815
Type Species:
Millepora muricata LINNÉ, 1758
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 264,2a. A. formosa (Dana), Rec., Formosa, X0.2. -- Fig. 264,2b. A. tubicinaria (Dana), Bikini, Marshall I., X4
Synonyms
Heteropora, Isopora, Conocyathus, Distichocyathus, Eumadrepora, Lepidocyathus, Odontocyathus, Polystachys, Rhabdocyathus, Trachylopora, Tylopora
Geographic Distribution
Eu.-W.Indies-N.Am.IndoPac.
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Eoc.
Beginning International Stage:
Ypresian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
56
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Rec.
Ending International Stage:
Meghalayan
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
0
Description
Ramose, rarely massive or incrusting, branches with an axial or leading corallite larger than the more numerous radial corallites budded from it, united by light, reticulate, spinose or pseudocostate coenosteum. Columella and dissepiments absent. [The most important and protean genus of hermatypic corals, with more than 200 living species representing about 40 per cent of living scleractinians; not yet satisfactorily divided sub-generically.]