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Genera Coverage: Alveopora, Porites
/The Best Livestock For Your Reef Aquarium:
Genus Goniopora, Family
Poritidae, Part 1
To: Goniopora 2,
Goniopora 3
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By Bob Fenner
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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
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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
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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
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| 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. |
To: Goniopora 2,
Goniopora 3
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