species: Acanthastrea pachysepta in ALA: Lizard Island (Lizard Island Field Guide)
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Acanthastrea pachysepta


©Anne Hoggett: Acanthastrea pachysepta at Yonge Reef near Lizard Island. Identified by Grace Frank and Dr Zoe Richards.

©Anne Hoggett: Acanthastrea pachysepta off South Island, Lizard Island Group. Largest polyp is 4 cm wide. Tentative id by Anne Hoggett.

©Anne Hoggett: Acanthastrea pachysepta off South Island, Lizard Island Group. Largest polyp is 4 cm wide. Tentative id by Anne Hoggett.

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Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Cnidaria
Class Hexacorallia
Order Scleractinia
Family Lobophylliidae
Genus Acanthastrea
Species Acanthastrea pachysepta
Status near threatened

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Distinguishing features

This species commonly occurs as a single polyp, usually with a dark colouration and yellow spines that are in sets of 3 or 5 down the septa (Grace Frank, pers. comm.).

Size

  • Size data has not been obtained.

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Distribution


©Atlas of Living Australia: Australian distribution

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References

  • Dinesen, Z.D. (1983). Shade-dwelling corals of the Great Barrier Reef, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 10: 173-185. LIRS catalog number 157.
  • Gruber, D.F., H.-T. Kao, S. Janoschka, J. Tsai and V.A. Pieribone (2008). Patterns of fluorescent protein expression in scerlactinian corals, Biological Bulletin, 215: 143-154. LIRS catalog number 1153.
  • Huang, D., R. Arrigoni, F. Benzoni, H. Fukami, N. Knowlton, N.D. Smith, J. Stolarski, L. M. Chou and A. F. Budd (2016). Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Lobophylliidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia),, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 178: 436-481.