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Scleractinia taxon detailsGoniopora lobata Milne Edwards, 1860
 207208 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207208)
accepted
Species
Goniopora hirsuta Crossland, 1952 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Goniopora traceyi Wells, 1954 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine,
Milne Edwards H (1860) Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 3: 1-560. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Note Red Sea (Veron, 1986).
Unreviewed
Type locality Red Sea (Veron, 1986). [details]
Description Colonies are hemispherical or short thick columns. Calices are 3-5 mm in diameter. Columellae are small. Living colonies...
Description Colonies are hemispherical or short thick columns. Calices are 3-5 mm in diameter. Columellae are small. Living colonies have very large polyps. Colour: usually brown, yellow or green. Abundance: common, forms large monospecific stands, especially in turbid water. (Veron, 1986 <57>) [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Goniopora lobata Milne Edwards, 1860. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207208 on 2025-04-23
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original description
Milne Edwards H (1860) Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 3: 1-560. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. (look up in IMIS) [details]
original description (of Goniopora hirsuta Crossland, 1952) Crossland C (1952) Madreporaria, Hydrocorallinae, Heliopora and Tubipora. Scientific Report Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-29 VI(3): 85-257. [details] original description (of Goniopora traceyi Wells, 1954) Wells JW. (1954). Bikini and nearby atols: 2. Oceanography (biologic). Recent corals of the Marshall Islands. <em>Geological Survey Professional Paper.</em> 260-1: 385-486, pls. 94-185. [details] context source (HKRMS) AFCD. (2004). Ecological Status and Revised Species Records of Hong Kong's Scleractinian Corals. Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department,The Hong Kong SAR Government. [details] context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record Sheppard, C.R.C. (1998). Corals of the Indian Ocean: a taxonomic and distribution database for coral reef ecologists [details] additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (1999). Appendix: List of extant stony corals. <em>Atoll Research Bulletin.</em> 459: 13-46. page(s): 37 [details] additional source Randall RH. (2003). An annotated checklist of hydrozoan and scleractinian corals collected from Guam and other Mariana Islands. <em>Micronesica.</em> 35-36: 121-137. page(s): 132 [details] additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  additional source Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia.</em> [details] additional source Veron JEN. (2002). New species described in Corals of the World. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series.</em> 11: 1-209. page(s): 193 [details] additional source Wells JW. (1955). Recent and subfossil corals of Moreton Bay, Queensland. <em>Queensland. University of Queensland Papers, Department of Geology.</em> 4 (10): 1-18, pls. 1-3. page(s): 5, 11 [details] additional source Wells JW. (1961). Notes on Indo-Pacific scleractinian corals. Part 3, A new reef coral from New Caledonia. <em>Pacific Science.</em> 15: 189-191. page(s): 189 [details] additional source Crossland C (1952) Madreporaria, Hydrocorallinae, Heliopora and Tubipora. Scientific Report Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-29 VI(3): 85-257. page(s): 94 [details] additional source Veron JEN, Pichon M. (1982). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part IV. Family Poritidae. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series.</em> 5: 1-159. page(s): 74-77 [details] additional source Bedot M (1907) Madreporaires d'Amboine. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 15: 143-292, pls. 5-50. page(s): 267-270 [details] additional source Veron JEN, Marsh LM. (1988). Hermatypic corals of Western Australia : records and annotated species list. <em>Records Western Australian Museum Supplement.</em> 29: 1-136., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.60555 page(s): 29, 68 [details] additional source Pillai CSG. (1972). Stony corals of the seas around India. <em>Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Corals and Coral Reefs, 1969. Marine Biological Association of India Symposium.</em> 5: 191-216. page(s): 204 [details] additional source Randall RH, Myers RF. (1983). The corals. Guide to the Coastal Resources of Guam: Vol. 2. <em>University of Guam Press, Guam, pp. 128.</em> [details] additional source Veron, J. E. N. (2000). Corals of the World, Volume III: Families Mussidae, Faviidae, Trachyphylliidae, Poritidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville., volume 3, pp. 490. page(s): 354 [details] additional source Sheppard, C. R. C. (1985). Fringing reefs in the southern region, Jeddah to Jizan. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 7, 37-58 page(s): 45 [details] additional source Wallace, C. C.; Fellegara, I.; Muir, P. R.; Harrison, P. L. (2009). The scleractinian corals of Moreton Bay, eastern Australia: high latitude, marginal assemblages with increasing species richness. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 54, 2 page(s): 2, 9, 14, 19, 48, 50 [details] additional source Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> page(s): 236, 238, 240, 241, 242, 243 [details]  Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Nontype MTQ G57846 [details]
Nontype WAM 167-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 438-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 452-86, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 479-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 595-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 676-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 817-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 818-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 991-79, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unknown type MNHN 497, geounit Saudi Arabian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unknown type MTQ G58789-90, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unknown type MTQ G60215-16 [details]
From editor or global species database
Biology zooxanthellate [details]Unreviewed
Description Colonies are hemispherical or short thick columns. Calices are 3-5 mm in diameter. Columellae are small. Living colonies have very large polyps. Colour: usually brown, yellow or green. Abundance: common, forms large monospecific stands, especially in turbid water. (Veron, 1986 <57>) [details]Type locality Red Sea (Veron, 1986). [details]
To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Goniopora traceyi Wells, 1954) To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Goniopora lobata) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (1 record) (from synonym Goniopora traceyi Wells, 1954) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (16 records) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (Holotype USNM 44868) (from synonym Goniopora traceyi Wells, 1954) To ITIS |
