Paragoniastrea russelli (Wells, 1954)

Amjad, Farah, Ahusan, Mohamed, Amir, Hana, de Villiers, Nina M, Gress, Erika, Mah, Christopher L, Naeem, Shafiya, Rico-Seijo, Nuria, Samaai, Toufiek, Afzal, Maryiam S, Woodall, Lucy C & Stefanoudis, Paris V, 2024, An underwater imagery identification guide for shallow, mesophotic and deep-sea benthos in Maldives, Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. e 120128-e 120128 : e120128-

Paragoniastrea russelli sp. inc. (Wells, 1954)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Taxon: scientificName: Paragoniastrea russelli ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Anthozoa-Hexacorallia; order: Scleractinia ; family: Merulinidae ; genus: Paragoniastrea ; scientificNameAuthorship: (Wells, 1954); Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; country: Maldives; locality: Laamu ; minimumDepthInMeters: 30; maximumDepthInMeters: 30; locationRemarks: Nekton Maldives Mission; Identification: identifiedBy: Farah Amjad, Paris Stefanoudis, Mariyam Shidha Afzal, Hana Amir; dateIdentified: 2022, 2023; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; Event: samplingProtocol: Submersible OR Remotely Operated Vehicle OR Snorkel; Record Level: basisOfRecord: Human observation

Notes

Thick crusting massive colonies with deep meandering valleys. Previously grouped with Goniastrea and exhibits long valleys that appear with more regularly-shaped septa than Platygyra (Fig. 101).