Acropora Oken, 1815
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https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-00264-8 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D500792E-FFC1-8301-FF17-FE11FE72FCBE |
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Felipe |
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Acropora Oken, 1815 |
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Genus Acropora Oken, 1815 View in CoL
Type species. Millepora muricata Linnaeus, 1758 , Holocene , Moluccas, designated by Verrill (1902) .
Diagnosis. Colonial, ramose, rarely massive or incrusting. Branches with an axial or leading corallite larger than the more numerous radial corallites budded from it. Corallites united by light, reticulate, spinose or pseudocostate coenosteum. Columella and dissepiments absent. Wall synapticulothecal, porous.
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