Goniopora sp. indet.
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Goniopora sp. indet. |
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Goniopora sp. indet. View in CoL
Materials
Type status: Other material. Taxon: scientificName: Goniopora; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Anthozoa; order: Scleractinia; family: Poritidae; genus: Goniopora; scientificNameAuthorship: de Blainville, 1830; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; country: Seychelles; locality: Aldabra N 1, Aldabra W 1, D'Arros N 1, Desroches S 1, Poivre E 1 ; minimumDepthInMeters: 8.8 m; maximumDepthInMeters: 36.3 m; locationRemarks: First Descent : Seychelles Expedition ; Identification : identifiedBy: Gilberte Gendron , Nico Fassbender , Paris Stefanoudis , Rowana Walton ; dateIdentified: 2019, 2020; identificationRemarks: identified only from imagery; Event : samplingProtocol: Submersible OR Remotely Operated Vehicle OR SCUBA; Record Level: basisOfRecord: Human observation
Notes
Colonies with a range of growth forms; in this survey, mostly massive. This genus is easily recognised by the long, fleshy polyps that are extended day and night. Maximum recorded size: 1 m across. Corallites between 2.2 and 5.0 mm in size. Alveopora appears very similar and, if in close view, can be distinguished by the number of polyp tentacles ( Goniopora : 24, Alveopora : 12) (Fig. 104 View Figure 104 ).
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