WoRMS taxon details
Goniastrea retiformis (Lamarck, 1816)
AphiaID: 207461
AphiaID: 207461
| 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 | |||||||||||||
| 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] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] East Africa [details] Indo-West Pacific [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Rodriguez [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Amarda curvus Kim I.H., 2007 (symbiotic: unspecified type)
Odontomolgus parvus Kim I.H., 2007 (symbiotic: unspecified type) Alteuthellopsis corallina Humes, 1981 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Amarda goniastreae Humes, 1985 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Parangium abstrusum Humes, 1985 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 8 proteins) To IUCN Red List To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: zooxanthellate [details] Description: This species has small calices, usually 3 to 4 mm diameter. Calices are deep and have thin, sharp walls. Septa alternate strongly, and all the first order septa bear a tall, thin paliform lobe. The species occurs on reef slopes, preferring shallow water. It is always found on reef flats and in areas where water temperatures and salinity may be elevated. (Sheppard, 1998 <308>) Colonies are massive or columnar. Calices are 3.5 mm in diameter and four- to six-sided. Septa clearly alternate and are thin and straight with well-developed thin paliform lobes. Colour: cream or pale brown, occasionally brown, pink or green. Abundance: common and usually a dominant of intertidal habitats. Subtidal colonies frequently exceed 1 m in diameter. (Veron, 1986 <57>) Grows into domed, massive colonies of up to 1 m, commonly less than 50 cm across, but can be dominant on shallow reefs. Corallites are recessed, usually 3-4 mm across, and irregularly arranged in honeycomb pattern with a clear septo-costal structure. Colour: usually pale in colour, ranging from cream to orange, pink, green or dark brown. Habitat: common in eulittoral pools and can withstand considerable exposure at low tide. (Richmond, 1997) [details] Type locality: unrecorded (Veron, 1986). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207461 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Goniastrea retiformis (Lamarck, 1816). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207461 on 2013-05-20 | ||||||||||||||
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