Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Volume 9 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...Mergui Archipelago. microphthalma (Verrill) Ramesvaram; Thursday Island; China (probably South); Tsusima, Straits of Korea. exilis (Brook).............. Macclesfield Bank; Evans Bank, Arafura Sea; Seychelles. elseyi (Brook)............. North Australia; Thursday Island; Rocky Island. Subgenus Rhadoryalhus Brook. Acropora hemprichii (Ehrenb.)....... Kosier, Red Sea; Ceylon; Port Denison; Shortland Island, Solomon Islands. syringodes (Brook)........ Palm Island; Samoa; South Seas. 'carduus (Dana)...........?Australia;?Malacca. 1'rosaria (Dana)........... Ponape, Caroline Islands; Samoan Islands; Tongatabu; Fiji; Ducha The total number of species definitely reported from Australia is 74, to which I have added the names of 4 species the locality of which is not given or which are questionably referred to Australia. I have marked with an asterisk () the names of 18 species which are specially considered in the present paper; and have indicated with a dagger (T) those of Dana s species of which the types are in the U. S. National Museum. It is not practicable here to review the species of Acropora reported from the Great Barrier Reef, as such a task is probably not possible without a critical study of Brook s types and of the other specimens examined by him. However, I will say that I doubt if half as many species as he recognized will be found valid. Recent studies, especially those by von Marenzeller, of the variation in the corallum of species of Acropora have shown it to be enormous. It appears that Brook has often described as species the vegetational variants of the same species; but without critical study of large suites of specimens it is hazardous to attempt to revise the synonymies. It is highly improbable that Brook...