Family ACROPORIDAE Verrill, 190 1

Acropora Oken, 1815

Acropora Oken, 1815: 66 . [validated ICZN 1963 (Boschma 1961; China 1963)]

Type locality. Gunung Api I., Banda Is, Indonesia. Type species. Millepora muricata Linnaeus, 1758; neotype MTQ G49167, designated Wallace (1999: 2–5, fig. 3, p. 182)

Diagnosis. Acroporidae which are ramose, rarely massive or encrusting, branching with single axial or leading corallites larger than the numerous radial corallites budded from them; radial corallites variously differentiated in shape; coenosteum light, reticulate, spinose, costate or pseudocostate; columella and dissepiments absent. Paleocene to Recent.

Further literature. Verrill (1901), Wells (1936), Wallace (1978), Veron & Wallace (1984), Veron (2000).