NMITA: Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America

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Acropora

Acropora Oken, 1815

Morphologic Description: Branching with axial corallites; plocoid colony form; small corallites with septa in two cycles of six; no columella; extensive coenosteum.

Morphologic Diagnosis: Colony Form: plocoid, Colony Shape: branching, Budding: extramural, Columella: none, Corallite Size: small ( < 1.5mm) or medium (1.5 - 10mm), Wall Structure: septothecal, Lobes: none.

Species (8 total):

• A. cervicornis (Lamarck,1816); CC species #22 (extant).
• A. palmata (Lamarck, 1816); CC species #23 (extant).
• A. panamensis Vaughan, 1919; CC species #24 (extinct).
• A. prolifera (Lamarck, 1816); CC species #25 (extant).
• A. saludensis Vaughan, 1919; CC species #26 (extinct).
• A. sp. A; CC species #26.6 (extinct).
• A. sp. B; CC species #26.7 (extinct).
• A. sp. C; CC species #26.8 (extinct).



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Last updated on October 24, 1996-afb.

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