Acropora palmata (Lamarck, 1816).
CC species number = 23
Photograph: Top photo is a SEM image of a corallite with scale
bar equal to 1.0 mm. Bottom photo is whole colony with scale bar
equal to approx. 1 cm. For a field photo.
Synonyms: None.
Morphologic Description:
Colony Form: plocoid
Colony Shape: branching table-like fronds
Colony Size: large, fronds 1-3 cm thick; sometimes > 1 m high
Corallite Spacing: 1-2 mm
Budding Type: mostly extramural
Corallite Diameter: radial corallites 0.5-0.8 mm
Calical Surface Shape: radial corallites tubular to circular
Axial and Radial Corallite Characteristics: moderate to weakly
developed axial corallites; evenly spaced radial corallites
Coenosteum Width: wide
Internal Coenosteum Structure: highly porous
Coenosteum Surface: strongly costate with spinules, reticulate
Relative Septum Thickness: weak
Lobes: none
Columella Structure: absent
Wall Structure: septothecal
Wall Characteristics: 0.1-0.3 mm thick
Holotype:
? Museum d'Historie Naturelle, Paris (Locality: "Les mers d'Amerique".
Recent).
Distribution:
Late Pliocene: Moin Formation, Costa Rica.
Plio-Pleistocene: Clino core (BDP), Bahamas; Moin Formation,
Costa Rica..
Early Pleistocene: Manchioneal Formation, Jamaica; Clino core
(BDP), Bahamas.
Late Pleistocene: Falmouth Formation, Jamaica; Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic; Key Largo Limestone, Florida; San Andrés.
Recent: Caribbean.
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Last updated on December 17, 1997-jpd.