WoRMS taxon details
Goniastrea australensis (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857)
AphiaID: 207460
AphiaID: 207460
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Merulinidae (Family) > Goniastrea (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Edited by Database Management Team | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Goniastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Goniastrea seychellensis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Veron, J.E.N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers, London. [details] additional source: S.D.Cairns, B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land, update Oct. 2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Cairns, S.D., 2009. Stylasteridae, Scleractinia (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] from synonym: Sheppard, C.R.C. (1987). Coral species of the Indian Ocean and adjacent seas: a synonymised compilation and some regional distribution patterns. Atoll Research Bulletin Nr 307 [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Chagos (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] East Africa [details] Indo-West Pacific [details] Mozambique [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 7 proteins) To IUCN Red List To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: zooxanthellate [details] Description: This fully meandroid Goniastrea is similar to Platygyra, especially P. lamellosa with which it is easily confused. Like other Goniastrea, but unlike Platygyra, it has conspicuous paliform lobes. Skeletons may also develop fairly extensive coenosteum between series, leading, at the periphery of the coral, to complete gaps between the series. (Sheppard, 1998 <308>) Colonies are submassive or encrusting, meandroid with sinuous valleys. Columella centres and paliform lobes are well developed. Colour: very variable but commonly a uniform dull green or brown or with walls and valley floors of different dull or bright colours. Abundance: common in shallow or clear water. May be dominant of temperate reefs. (Veron, 1986 <57>) [details] Type locality: "Australia" (Veron, 1986). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207460 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Goniastrea australensis (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207460 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||||||||
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