WoRMS taxon details
original description
Vaughan TW (1907). Some madreporarian corals from French Somaliland, East Africa, collected by Dr Ch. Gravier. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum 32: 249-266. [details]
original description
(of Goniopora pulvinula Wells, 1954) Wells JW. (1954). Recent corals of the Marshall Islands: Bikini and nearby atolls, part 2, oceanography (biologic). <em>U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper.</em> 260(I): 385-486. page(s): 393, 399, 451, pl. 164 [details]
context source (HKRMS)
Ang, P. O.; McCorry, D.; Si, C. C. L. (2003). Establishing a reference collection and field guides for Hong Kong scleractinian coral. <em>Final report submitted to the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department, The Hong Kong SAR Government.</em> [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
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 [request]
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): 196 [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
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
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, 69 [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): 351 [details]
additional source
Uchida, H.; Soyama, I. (2001). Sea Anemones in Japanese Waters. TBS. Japan., pp. 157. page(s): 136, 151, 152 [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, 49 [details]
Nontype MTQ G57809, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype MTQ G57813-14, G58667, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype MTQ G58664-65 [details]
Nontype MTQ G58892 [details]
Nontype MTQ G60221 [details]
Nontype WAM 107-88, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 376-84, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 377-84, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 404-83, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 98-88, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unknown type MTQ G57473, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unknown type MTQ G57815, G58666, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From editor or global species database
Biology zooxanthellate [details]From other sources
Description Colonies are submassive or are short thick columns. Calices are up to 4.5 mm in diameter. Columellae are prominent, dome-shaped, divided into six parts, each being a delta of four septa. Polyps have large oral cones. Colour: pale or dark brown or green. Oral cones are usually white. Abundance: common, especially in turbid water. May form large monospecific stands. (Veron, 1986 <57>) [details]
Type locality Somalia (Veron, 1986). [details]
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