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Material:
Gulf of Suez:
Gulf of Aqaba :
Northern R. 5.:
J erus.
T. Aviv
HLM
Jerus.
T. Aviv
Basel
HLM
T. Aviv
USNM
HLM
SLR
NS
X2 :
SLR
S
2221-3, 2249- 1 (Ras el Misalla); 2158- 4 (Et Tur).
1900 (Et Tur).
1- 2 (Ras Shukheir).
461 - 2 (EI Kura).
1274,1284,1285 , 1366 (Eilat) ; 1895 (Dahab) ; 4840, 4850, 4856,
4857 , 4873 (Ras Atantur).
73 684 (EI Kura).
PW
EC 451 (Eilat) .
NS 1861 (Ras Muhammad).
Wa
EC
99 (without locality, presumedly Ghardaqa ).
145 (Koseir , duplicate from KLUNZlNGER under pyramidalis) ;
511 , 512,513 (RasAbu Hagar) .
Central R. S.: P. Sud . Sa III (Sanganeb R.).
HLM RM 64,65 , 68 (Wingate R.).
X2: 8-2, 8- 20 (Shaab Anbar).
Southern R. S.: HLM EC 353 (Massawa).
Dis t rib uti 0 n : Wide spread and common species. Red Sea eastward to Tuamotu and Hawaii
(GR IGG , WELLS & WALLACE, 1981).
Rem arks: We have added A. digiti/era to the synonymy list. WALLACE (1978:301) has pointed
out that " On the Great Barrier Reef, where A. digiti/era occurs with A. bumilis, some colonies cannot
be definitely assigned to one or other species on morphological grounds".
A cropora eurystoma (KLUNZINGER), 1879
(Pl ate 7, Fig. 7)
Madrepora eurystolna 1879, KLUNZINGER 2, 16 ; pis. 1/8; 417a , b; 9/ 12 (Type local ity : Red Sea),
189l, BROOK. Il7.
A cropora eurystoma 1906, v. MARENZELLER, 51.
1971 , LOVA & SLOBODKIN, 123.
1974. MERGNER & SCHUHMACHER . 264.
1973 , PILLAI, VINE & SCHEER, 458.
1976. PI LLAI & SCHEER. lO; pI. 8/ l.
Madrepo ra IlPItbo cercis 1893 , BROOK , 106 ; pI. u /e.
A cropora
di/alala 1893. BROOK, 81.
macrostoma 1893, BROOK, 105; pI. 19/ 8.
pagoensis 1925, HOFFMEISTER, 7l.
terruis? 1978, WALLACE. 294 ; pis. 72 , 73 .
1980, HEAD, 148, 444.
The following is a generalized description of the present specimens. Corymbose, main branches up to
1 cm thick bearing 2 to 4 branch lets. Axial corallites 3 to 3.5 mm in diameter at the top with a large rounded
opening. Wall thin , exsert to 3 mm. Septa 12 , primaries larger than the secondaries, often meeting at the
centre of the axial fossa. Radials ascending generally outer wall at 45·, nariform , uniform in size , about
4 mm in length, 2.5 to 3 mm in diameter at the top. A few of the larger radials are half tubular and proliferous.
Some radials at the basal parts of the branches are subimmersed. There are two cycles of deepseated
septa in the radials. Wall striated, porous.
Material:
Gulf of Aqaba :
orthern R. S.:
Central R. S.:
J erus.
T. Aviv
Basel
T. Aviv
US M
P. Sud .
SLR
NS
PW
NS
Wa
Sa
126 1 (Fara'un Is/.); 492- 1 (EI Kura) ; 645-3 (Ma rsa Abu Zabad).
1236 (Eilat).
73 506 (Eilat).
1866 (Ras Muhammad).
14, 15 (Ghardaqa).
5 (Sanganeb R.).