Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles
Description of Four New Species in the Hard Coral Genus Acropora Oken, 1815 (Scleractinia: Astrocoeniina: Acroporidae) from South-East Africa
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1995
Publication Title
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
Keywords
South Africa, Mozambique, Cnidaria, Taxonomy, Acropora
ISSN
0024-4082
Volume
113
Issue/No.
3
First Page
229
Last Page
247
Abstract
Four new species in the hermatypic scleractinian coral genus Acropora art described from southeast Africa. Two species, A. natalensis sp. nov. and A. mossambica sp. nov., occur in both South Africa and Mozambique. Two species, A. sordiensis sp. nov., and A. branchi sp. nov., are only known from northern Natal in South Africa. A. branchi sp. nov. and A. mossambica sp. nov. are intertidal species and were collected from permanent tidal pools. A. sordiensis sp. nov. and A. natalensis sp. nov. are strictly subtidal species.
NSUWorks Citation
Bernhard Riegl. 1995. Description of Four New Species in the Hard Coral Genus Acropora Oken, 1815 (Scleractinia: Astrocoeniina: Acroporidae) from South-East Africa .Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society , (3) : 229 -247. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facarticles/345.
ORCID ID
0000-0002-6003-9324
ResearcherID
F-8807-2011
DOI
10.1111/j.1096-3642.1995.tb00934.x
Comments
©1995 The Linnean Society of London