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Genus Goniopora, Family Poritidae, Part 1

To: Goniopora 2, Goniopora 3

By Bob Fenner

Goniopora sp. colonies, N. Sulawesi

The most commonly sold genus of stony coral in our interest from the ancient past to present, Gonioporas are notoriously poor-survivors... EACH polyp must need be fed... meaty foods, of size.... every few days... Try other species!

Genus Goniopora de Blainville 1830. /WA Corals: columnar, massive or encrusting • corallites polygonal • 24 tentacles with long stalks • tentacles extended during the day

Goniopora spp. Encrusting, massive or columnar colonies. Elongated, tubular polyps. Twenty four tentacles per polyp; round or polygonal polyps with tentacles in three series (as opposed to two in Alveopora). Indo-Central Pacific; genus ranges from Red Sea, East Africa to Australia, S. Japan, Tuamotus...
Close up of a Goniopora... count those tentacles... 24?

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Goniopora columna Dana 1846. Colonies as tufts on short columns. Corallites vary depending on position. Ones toward the center of colonies have fine columella and septa; those on the side more robust structures. Polyps have large central cones. Indo-Western Pacific. Queensland close-up and Red Sea images. 

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Goniopora lobata Milne-Edwards and Haime 1860. Colonies as columns with growth. Large (more than 5mm.) corallites with small columellae and oral cones; elongate in appearance on full extension. Tentacles and oral cones typically white in color; contrasting with polyps which are otherwise brown, tan or green. Right and below left in Queensland, Austr., broken and whole colonies in the Red Sea. 

Goniopora tenuidens (Quelch 1886). Colonies as hemispheres or ovals. Polyps packed tightly together, tentacles of all the same length. Occurs in blue (looks pink in photography at times), tan, brown. Below, in Cebu, P.I., and two images in Queensland, Australia. 

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