WoRMS taxon details
Acropora digitifera (Dana, 1846)
AphiaID: 207045
AphiaID: 207045
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Acroporidae (Family) > Acropora (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Edited by Database Management Team | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Acropora Oken, 1815 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Acropora baeodactyla (Brook) Acropora leptocyathus Brook Acropora schmitti Wells, 1950 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Veron, J.E.N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers, London. [details] basis of record: Sheppard, C.R.C. (1987). Coral species of the Indian Ocean and adjacent seas: a synonymised compilation and some regional distribution patterns. Atoll Research Bulletin Nr 307 [details] additional source: S.D.Cairns, B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land, update Oct. 2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: Wallace, C.C., 1999. Staghorn corals of the world: a revision of the coral genus Acropora (Scleractinia; Astrocoeniina; Acroporidae) worldwide, with emphasis on morphology, phylogeny and biogeography. : i-xviii, 1-421. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Indo-West Pacific [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Rodriguez [details] Seychelles [details] South Africa (country) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (59166 nucleotides; 20 proteins) To IUCN Red List To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: zooxanthellate [details] Description: This coral is like a thin Acropora humilis, with an identical colony growth form, this being groups of finger-like projections arising from encrusting basal plates. Branches, however, are usually 1 cm diameter. Axial corallites are large, up to 4 mm wide. Radial corallites are about 1 mm diameter, have thick lips on their lower side, and are aligned in rows. There are no or very few immersed radials. There is some side branching which is not usually seen in A. humilis. The coral prefers shallow water, but is found to 15 m. It may be very abundant, providing cover of 10-20% or more in patches (Sheppard, 1998). Colonies are corymbose to digitate with small terete branches. Resembles a diminutive A. humilis. Colour: purple, pale brown, cream or yellow, often with pale-blue, cream or yellow branch tips. Abundance: Usually rare except for wave-washed back margins of some reefs, where it may be dominant (Veron, 1986). [details] Type locality: Type locality: unrecorded (Veron, 1986). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207045 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Acropora digitifera (Dana, 1846). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207045 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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