Acropora cervicornis (Lamarck, 1816).
CC species number = 22
Photograph: Top photo is a close-up of a corallite with scale
bar 1.0 mm. Bottom photo has scale bar of approx. 2 cm. For a close-up
of a branch. For a field photo.
Morphologic Description:
Colony Form: plocoid
Colony Shape: branching, arborescent
Colony Size: branches1-3 cm thick
Corallite Spacing: 2-3 mm
Budding Type: mostly extramural
Corallite Diameter: radial corallites 0.8-1.0 mm
Axial and Radial Corallite Characteristics: well-developed axial
corallites; exsert nariform radial corallites often in rows and oriented
toward branched tips
Coenosteum Width: moderate
Internal Coenosteum Texture: moderate porosity
Coenosteum Surface: strongly costate with spinules
Relative Septum Thickness: moderate
Lobes: none
Columella Structure: absent
Wall Structure: septothecal
Wall Thickness: 0.2-0.4 mm
Holotype:
? Museum d'Historie Naturelle, Paris (Locality: "Les mers d'Amerique".
Recent).
Distribution:
Early Late Pliocene: Bowden Formation, Jamaica.
Late Pliocene: Moin Formation, Costa Rica.
Late Late Pliocene: Old Pera Beds and Hope Gate Formation, Jamaica.
Late Late Pliocene to Late Pleistocene: Clino core (BDP), Bahamas.
Plio-Pleistocene: Unda core (BDP), Bahamas; Lomas del Mar, Costa
Rica.
Early Pleistocene: Manchioneal Formation, Jamaica.
Late Pleistocene: Falmouth Formation, Jamaica; Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic;Key Largo Limestone, Florida; San Andreacutes.
Recent: Caribbean.
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Last updated on December 16, 1997-jpd.