WoRMS taxon details
Goniopora stokesi Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851
207219 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207219)
accepted
Species
Alveopora irregularis Crossland, 1952 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Goniopora irregularis (Crossland, 1952) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Milne Edwards H, Haime J (1851) Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 7. Monographie des Poritides. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3, 16: 21-70. [details]
Note unrecorded (Veron, 1986).
From other sources
Type locality unrecorded (Veron, 1986). [details]
Description Mature colonies are columnar. They may be surrounded by small, free living, roughly spherical balls, which grow into larger...
Description Mature colonies are columnar. They may be surrounded by small, free living, roughly spherical balls, which grow into larger dome shaped colonies. The skeletal balls develop within the living tissue when still attached to the parent, and then detach to grow independently. (The second photo in both the b/w and colour series are polyp balls.) Calices are deep, sometimes 3 or 4 mm deep, and walls are thin and perforated. In free living balls, septal structures are especially thin and loosely packed, though this condition is also reached in rapidly growing parts of attached columns. The columella is very variable, sometimes very small, sometimes half a calice diameter. Septa are perforated and have an uneven appearance. The calices have a more ragged appearance than other Goniopora. Living polyps are about 10 cm long. The species is found mostly in turbid areas, or amongst sandy patches in broken reef areas, from 2 to 10 m deep. (Sheppard, 1998 <308>)
Colonies are free-living or attached, hemispherical or short thick columns. Calices are 3-6 mm in diameter with high walls which have a ragged appearance. Columellae are broad and irregular. Small daughter colonies often occur imbedded in the living tissue or parent colonies. Polyps are of mixed sizes, the larger being very elongate. Colour: uniform brown or green. Abundance: Uncommon usually found free-living, on sandy substrates. (Veron, 1986 <57>)
Easily recognised under water, as the polyps are fully extended during the day. The presence of "polyp balls"--small skeletal spheres which grow attached to the parent colony and then drop off to form independent colonies--also characterise this species. Polyps have large, white oral cones and, with their 24 tentacles extended, colonies have the appearance of a cluster of daisies. Colonies form low mounds. Colour: usually pale greyish-green. Habitat: sheltered, commonly turbid areas. (Richmond, 1997) [details]
Colonies are free-living or attached, hemispherical or short thick columns. Calices are 3-6 mm in diameter with high walls which have a ragged appearance. Columellae are broad and irregular. Small daughter colonies often occur imbedded in the living tissue or parent colonies. Polyps are of mixed sizes, the larger being very elongate. Colour: uniform brown or green. Abundance: Uncommon usually found free-living, on sandy substrates. (Veron, 1986 <57>)
Easily recognised under water, as the polyps are fully extended during the day. The presence of "polyp balls"--small skeletal spheres which grow attached to the parent colony and then drop off to form independent colonies--also characterise this species. Polyps have large, white oral cones and, with their 24 tentacles extended, colonies have the appearance of a cluster of daisies. Colonies form low mounds. Colour: usually pale greyish-green. Habitat: sheltered, commonly turbid areas. (Richmond, 1997) [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Goniopora stokesi Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207219 on 2024-04-20
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original description
Milne Edwards H, Haime J (1851) Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 7. Monographie des Poritides. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3, 16: 21-70. [details]
original description (of Alveopora irregularis Crossland, 1952) Crossland C (1952) Madreporaria, Hydrocorallinae, Heliopora and Tubipora. Scientific Report Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-29 VI(3): 85-257. [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [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 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
[request]
additional source Nemenzo, F. (1955). Systematic studies on Philippine shallow water scleractinians: I. Suborder Fungiida. <em>Natural and Applied Science Bulletin, University of the Philippines.</em> 15: 3-84.
page(s): 6, 44-46, Plate IX, fig. 2 [details]
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 Scheer G, Pillai CSG. (1974). Report on Scleractinia from the Nicobar Islands. <em>Zoologica, Stuttgart.</em> 42(122): 1-75.
page(s): 8, 41, 74, plate 19 [details]
additional source Pillai CSG, Scheer G (1976) Report on the stony corals from the Maldive Archipelago. Results of the Xarifa Expedition 1957/58. Zoologica, Stuttgart 43 (126): 1-83, pls. 1-32. [details]
additional source Ortmann, A. (1888). Studien über Systematik und geographische Verbreitung der Steinkorallen. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abtheilung für Systematik, Biologie und Biogeographie der Tiere.</em> 3: 143-188, pl. 6.
page(s): 159 [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. [details]
additional source Pichon, M.; Benzoni, F. (2007). Taxonomic re-appraisal of zooxanthellate Scleractinian Corals in the Maldive Archipelago. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1441: 21–33.
page(s): 30 [details]
additional source Bedot M (1907) Madreporaires d'Amboine. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 15: 143-292, pls. 5-50.
page(s): 264-267, 267, 268 [details]
additional source Gravier C. (1911). Les récifs de coraux et les Madréporaires de la baie de Tadjourah (Golfe d'Aden). <em>Annales de l'Institut Océanographique de Monaco.</em> 2 (3): 1-101, pls 1-12. [details]
additional source Faustino LA. (1927). Recent Madreporaria of the Philippine Islands. <em>Bureau of Science Manila Monograph.</em> 22: 1-310, pls. 1-100.
page(s): 21, 287-288 [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 Umbgrove JHF. (1924). Report on Plistocene and Pliocene corals from Ceram. <em>Geological, Petrographical, and Paleontological Results of explorations carried out from September 1917 till June 1919 in the island of Ceram, Second Series: Palaeontology.</em> 1: 1-22, map, pls. 1-2. [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): 352-353 [details]
additional source Acosta, A.; Sammarco, P. W.; Duarte, L. F. (2005). New fission processes in the zoanthid Palythoa caribaeorum: description and quantitative aspects. Bulletin of Marine Science, 76(1): 1-26
page(s): 17 [details]
additional source Pillai CSG. (1983). Structure and generic diversity of recent Scleractinia of India. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India.</em> 25, 1-2, 78-90.
page(s): 86 [details]
additional source Kühlmann, D. H. H. (2006). Die Steinkorallensammlung im Naturhistorischen Museum in Rudolstadt (Thüringen) nebst ökologischen Bemerkungen. Rudolstädter Naturhistorische Schriften, 13, 37-113
page(s): 62, 86, 113 [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, 19, 47, 52, 53 [details]
original description (of Alveopora irregularis Crossland, 1952) Crossland C (1952) Madreporaria, Hydrocorallinae, Heliopora and Tubipora. Scientific Report Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-29 VI(3): 85-257. [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [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 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
[request] additional source Nemenzo, F. (1955). Systematic studies on Philippine shallow water scleractinians: I. Suborder Fungiida. <em>Natural and Applied Science Bulletin, University of the Philippines.</em> 15: 3-84.
page(s): 6, 44-46, Plate IX, fig. 2 [details]
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 Scheer G, Pillai CSG. (1974). Report on Scleractinia from the Nicobar Islands. <em>Zoologica, Stuttgart.</em> 42(122): 1-75.
page(s): 8, 41, 74, plate 19 [details]
additional source Pillai CSG, Scheer G (1976) Report on the stony corals from the Maldive Archipelago. Results of the Xarifa Expedition 1957/58. Zoologica, Stuttgart 43 (126): 1-83, pls. 1-32. [details]
additional source Ortmann, A. (1888). Studien über Systematik und geographische Verbreitung der Steinkorallen. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abtheilung für Systematik, Biologie und Biogeographie der Tiere.</em> 3: 143-188, pl. 6.
page(s): 159 [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. [details]
additional source Pichon, M.; Benzoni, F. (2007). Taxonomic re-appraisal of zooxanthellate Scleractinian Corals in the Maldive Archipelago. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1441: 21–33.
page(s): 30 [details]
additional source Bedot M (1907) Madreporaires d'Amboine. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 15: 143-292, pls. 5-50.
page(s): 264-267, 267, 268 [details]
additional source Gravier C. (1911). Les récifs de coraux et les Madréporaires de la baie de Tadjourah (Golfe d'Aden). <em>Annales de l'Institut Océanographique de Monaco.</em> 2 (3): 1-101, pls 1-12. [details]
additional source Faustino LA. (1927). Recent Madreporaria of the Philippine Islands. <em>Bureau of Science Manila Monograph.</em> 22: 1-310, pls. 1-100.
page(s): 21, 287-288 [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 Umbgrove JHF. (1924). Report on Plistocene and Pliocene corals from Ceram. <em>Geological, Petrographical, and Paleontological Results of explorations carried out from September 1917 till June 1919 in the island of Ceram, Second Series: Palaeontology.</em> 1: 1-22, map, pls. 1-2. [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): 352-353 [details]
additional source Acosta, A.; Sammarco, P. W.; Duarte, L. F. (2005). New fission processes in the zoanthid Palythoa caribaeorum: description and quantitative aspects. Bulletin of Marine Science, 76(1): 1-26
page(s): 17 [details]
additional source Pillai CSG. (1983). Structure and generic diversity of recent Scleractinia of India. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India.</em> 25, 1-2, 78-90.
page(s): 86 [details]
additional source Kühlmann, D. H. H. (2006). Die Steinkorallensammlung im Naturhistorischen Museum in Rudolstadt (Thüringen) nebst ökologischen Bemerkungen. Rudolstädter Naturhistorische Schriften, 13, 37-113
page(s): 62, 86, 113 [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, 19, 47, 52, 53 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Nontype HLD X2: 148-3, geounit Indian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype HLD X2: 161-1, geounit Indian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype HLD X2: 161-2, geounit Indian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype HLD X2: 161-3, geounit Indian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype HLD X2: 161-4, geounit Indian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype HLD X2: 161-5, geounit Indian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype HLD X2: 161-6, geounit Indian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype MTQ G56592, G57472 [details]
Nontype MTQ G57812, G57845, G59218, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype MTQ G58844, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 267-84, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 458-77, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 490-84, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 606-73, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unknown type MSI C-136 [details]
Unknown type MTQ G57810-11 [details]
Unknown type MTQ G58761 [details]
Unknown type MTQ G58788, G58845 [details]
Unknown type MTQ G60218-19 [details]
From editor or global species database
Biology zooxanthellate [details]From other sources
Description Mature colonies are columnar. They may be surrounded by small, free living, roughly spherical balls, which grow into larger dome shaped colonies. The skeletal balls develop within the living tissue when still attached to the parent, and then detach to grow independently. (The second photo in both the b/w and colour series are polyp balls.) Calices are deep, sometimes 3 or 4 mm deep, and walls are thin and perforated. In free living balls, septal structures are especially thin and loosely packed, though this condition is also reached in rapidly growing parts of attached columns. The columella is very variable, sometimes very small, sometimes half a calice diameter. Septa are perforated and have an uneven appearance. The calices have a more ragged appearance than other Goniopora. Living polyps are about 10 cm long. The species is found mostly in turbid areas, or amongst sandy patches in broken reef areas, from 2 to 10 m deep. (Sheppard, 1998 <308>)Colonies are free-living or attached, hemispherical or short thick columns. Calices are 3-6 mm in diameter with high walls which have a ragged appearance. Columellae are broad and irregular. Small daughter colonies often occur imbedded in the living tissue or parent colonies. Polyps are of mixed sizes, the larger being very elongate. Colour: uniform brown or green. Abundance: Uncommon usually found free-living, on sandy substrates. (Veron, 1986 <57>)
Easily recognised under water, as the polyps are fully extended during the day. The presence of "polyp balls"--small skeletal spheres which grow attached to the parent colony and then drop off to form independent colonies--also characterise this species. Polyps have large, white oral cones and, with their 24 tentacles extended, colonies have the appearance of a cluster of daisies. Colonies form low mounds. Colour: usually pale greyish-green. Habitat: sheltered, commonly turbid areas. (Richmond, 1997) [details]
Type locality unrecorded (Veron, 1986). [details]
To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Alveopora irregularis Crossland, 1952)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To GenBank (42 nucleotides; 31 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Near Threatened)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (35 records)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Alveopora irregularis Crossland, 1952)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To GenBank (42 nucleotides; 31 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Near Threatened)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (35 records)
To ITIS
