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Heteropora
Madrepora
Acropora
Madrepora
Acropora
Madrepora
Acropora
Heteropora
Madrepora
AcroporD
MadreporQ
Acropora
Heuropora
Madrepora
1976, PI LLAI & SCHEER, 32.
1978, WALLACE, 300; pi,. 81; 82; 83.
1980, HEAD, 148, 444.
abrotanoides 1834 . EHREN BERG, 337 (non LAMARCK).
calamariD 1893 , BROOK, lS4;pl. 23/A. B.
canaliculata 1879, KLUNZINGER 2, 12 : pis. 1/ 3; 4/ 10: 918.
1893, BROOK, 151.
digitifera 1952, CROSSLAND, 207; pJ. 3512.
1978. WALLACE. 301; pJ. 84IA- C.
erytbraea 1879, KlUNZINGER 2, 14 : pis. 31 5: 4/8 ; 9/ 10.
1893 , BROOK, 157.
eryrbraea 1954. ROSSI , 51 ; pis. 6/2:8/ 1. 2.
gemmifera
gemmifera
bempricbi
oce/tata
ocelJata
pal/ida
paxilligera
plantaginea
1967, SCHEER. 424.
1893. BROOK. 142; pI. 21.
1918. VAUGHAN, 177; pJ. 7711- 3.
1876. HAECKEL. 45 ; pJ. 216 .
1879. KLUNZINGER 2, 9;pl,. 117;4114;915.
1889, ORTMANN, 50S .
1906, v. MAR ENZELLER, 52; pl~ 18181.; 24181.
1879, KLUNZINGER 2, 10; pi,. 916 ; l OlA.
1893 . BROOK, 74 (synonymy).
1816, LAMARCK. 279 (non DANA).
1860, MI LNE EDWARDS (& HAIME). 149.
1893 , BROOK, 156 (synonymy).
ptatjlcyalbus 1893, BROOK, 153 .
pyramidal;, 1879, KLUNZINGER 2, 12; pi,. 112; 213; 416 ; 917 ; IOI B.
1893, BROOK, ISO.
scberzeriana 1878, BRUEGGEMANN, 397; pI. 8/a. b.
1879, KlUNZINGER 2,9.
scberzenana 1906, v. MARENZEllER. 41 ; pis. 12127- 31: 13 /27a . 29a. 3la, 32- 35 i 18128a.
1918, VAUGHAN. 176; pI. 75 / 1- 4.
seriala 1834, EHRENBERG. 337.
seT;"a 1860, MILNE EDWAR DS (& HAIME), 15 2.
1893. BROOK , 149 (synonymy).
vagabunda 1879. KLUNZINGER 2, 15:pls. 1/4;4/9: 9/ 11.
WELLS (1954) gave an exhaustive treatment of the species and adopted DANA's specific name bumilis
to this species. LAMARCK'S name plantaginea appears to be not used by any author since BROOK for any
of the Acropora. BROOK stated that LAMARCK 'S types of Madrepora plantaginea include several specimens
of which one was selected by MILNE EDWARDS & HAlME (1860) and described. MARENZELLER (1906)
examined this and remarked that it is a very irregularly developed specimen and is si milar to A. scberzeriana.
One of us (PI LLA I) received a good series of photographs of LAMARCK 'S type in Paris through Professor
LEV I in 1969. A critical examination of these photographs shows that Madrepora plantaginea is more
or less the same as M. bumilis DANA. But we are not adopting it here because the specific name bumilis
is in continuous use since HOFFM EISTER , 1925, both in taxono mical and ecological works. A reversion
to LAMARCK 'S name would cause more confusion than convenience.
EHR ENBE RG's Heteropora seriata is No. 889 in the Berlin Museum. A recent study of this fair-seized
colony showed that it is not at all separable from other forms described under various names, but belonging
to A. bumilis. The sa me can be applied to EH RENBE RG 'S Heteropora abrotanoides (Nos. 894,895 and
896 in the Berlin Museum). KL UNZ INGER 's Madrepora erytbraea is represented by a more slender fo rm
with cespitose corallum. We do not thin k, that A. erytbraea is genetically different from A. bumilis. The
type of Madrepora paxilligera is US M 249. One of us (PILLA I) studied this species in 1977 and feels
that it also falls within the skeletal range of A. bumilis. We have also studied KLUNZINGER'S specimens
of M. canaliculata ( o. 2 129), ocellata (2 11 4), pallida (2128, 2225), pyramidalis (2115, 2116) and vagabU11da
(2 145 ,2224) in the Berlin Museum.
The present collection includes several specimens. They display a wide range of skeletal variation in
the thickness of branches and in the size of the radials. However, they fit into the general description of
this species given by WELLS (1954).