Goniopora lobata
©Anne Hoggett: Goniopora lobata from lagoon bommie, Lizard Island. Note small white oral cones and short tentacles with rounded tips. Identified by Grace Frank, who notes: "This one doesn't have pointed tips like G. minor. Polyps don't have large oral cones, ruling out G. columna. They are quite short, rounded and with a small white oral disc."
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Cnidaria
Class
Hexacorallia
Order
Scleractinia
Family
Poritidae
Genus
Goniopora
Species
Goniopora lobata
Status
near threatened
Colours
Distinguishing features
Goniopora lobata forms "lobes" on short, thick columns, or occasionally hemispherical colonies; corallites are large (> 5 mm diameter), oral cones are small, and the 24 tentacles are short with rounded tips; oral cones and tentacle tips are often of a different colour than the rest of the polyp (Veron, 2000).
Size
- Size data has not been obtained.
Synonyms
Distribution
©Atlas of Living Australia: Australian distribution
Web resources
References
References that assist with identification
- Veron, J.E.N. (2000). Corals of the World: Volume 3 Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville.
Other references
- Babcock, R.C., G.D. Bull, P.L. Harrison, A.J. Heyward, J.K. Oliver, C.C. Wallace and B.L. Willis (1986). Synchronous spawnings of 105 scleractinian coral species on the Great Barrier Reef, Marine Biology, 90: 379-394. LIRS catalog number 300.
- Paula, J.R., D. Sun, V. Pissarra, P. Narvaez, R. Rosa, A.S. Grutter and P.C. Sikkel (2021). The role of corals on the abundance of a fish ectoparasite in the Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs, 40: 535-542. LIRS catalog number 2475.
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