WoRMS taxon details
Goniastrea retiformis (Lamarck, 1816)
207461 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207461)
accepted
Species
Astraea (Fissicella) eximia Dana, 1846 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Astraea eximia Dana, 1846 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Astraea retiformis Lamarck, 1816 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
Astraea spongia Ehrenberg, 1834 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Astrea eximia (Dana, 1846) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Astrea retiformis Lamarck, 1816 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
Astrea spongia (Ehrenberg, 1834) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Goniastraea retiformis (Lamarck, 1816) · unaccepted > superseded combination (misspelling)
Goniastraea retiformis var. bournoni (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Goniastrea bournoni Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Goniastrea bournonii Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (misspelling)
Goniastrea eximia (Dana, 1846) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Variety Goniastrea retiformis var. parvistella (Dana, 1846) accepted as Goniastrea edwardsi Chevalier, 1971 (but possible senior synonym?)
- Variety Goniastrea retiformis var. solida Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 accepted as Goniastrea edwardsi Chevalier, 1971 (but possible senior synonym?)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Astraea retiformis Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, J.-B. M. de. (1816). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome second. <em>Paris. Verdière.</em> Vol. 2 pp. 1-568., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47698 [details] 
Note unrecorded (Veron, 1986).
Unreviewed
Type locality unrecorded (Veron, 1986). [details]
Description This species has small calices, usually 3 to 4 mm diameter. Calices are deep and have thin, sharp walls. Septa alternate...
Description This species has small calices, usually 3 to 4 mm diameter. Calices are deep and have thin, sharp walls. Septa alternate strongly, and all the first order septa bear a tall, thin paliform lobe. The species occurs on reef slopes, preferring shallow water. It is always found on reef flats and in areas where water temperatures and salinity may be elevated. (Sheppard, 1998 <308>)
Colonies are massive or columnar. Calices are 3.5 mm in diameter and four- to six-sided. Septa clearly alternate and are thin and straight with well-developed thin paliform lobes. Colour: cream or pale brown, occasionally brown, pink or green. Abundance: common and usually a dominant of intertidal habitats. Subtidal colonies frequently exceed 1 m in diameter. (Veron, 1986 <57>)
Grows into domed, massive colonies of up to 1 m, commonly less than 50 cm across, but can be dominant on shallow reefs. Corallites are recessed, usually 3-4 mm across, and irregularly arranged in honeycomb pattern with a clear septo-costal structure. Colour: usually pale in colour, ranging from cream to orange, pink, green or dark brown. Habitat: common in eulittoral pools and can withstand considerable exposure at low tide. (Richmond, 1997) [details]
Colonies are massive or columnar. Calices are 3.5 mm in diameter and four- to six-sided. Septa clearly alternate and are thin and straight with well-developed thin paliform lobes. Colour: cream or pale brown, occasionally brown, pink or green. Abundance: common and usually a dominant of intertidal habitats. Subtidal colonies frequently exceed 1 m in diameter. (Veron, 1986 <57>)
Grows into domed, massive colonies of up to 1 m, commonly less than 50 cm across, but can be dominant on shallow reefs. Corallites are recessed, usually 3-4 mm across, and irregularly arranged in honeycomb pattern with a clear septo-costal structure. Colour: usually pale in colour, ranging from cream to orange, pink, green or dark brown. Habitat: common in eulittoral pools and can withstand considerable exposure at low tide. (Richmond, 1997) [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Goniastrea retiformis (Lamarck, 1816). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207461 on 2024-11-09
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original description
(of Astrea retiformis Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, J.-B. M. de. (1816). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome second. <em>Paris. Verdière.</em> Vol. 2 pp. 1-568., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47698 [details]
original description (of Astraea retiformis Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, J.-B. M. de. (1816). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome second. <em>Paris. Verdière.</em> Vol. 2 pp. 1-568., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47698 [details]
original description (of Astraea spongia Ehrenberg, 1834) Ehrenberg, C. G. (1834). Beiträge zur physiologischen Kenntniss der Corallenthiere im allgemeinen, und besonders des rothen Meeres, nebst einem Versuche zur physiologischen Systematik derselben. <em>Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin.</em> 1: 225-380., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29725862 [details]
original description (of Astraea eximia Dana, 1846) Dana, J.D. (1846-1849). Zoophytes. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842. <em>Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia.</em> 7: 1-740, 61 pls. (1846: 1-120, 709-720; 1848: 121-708, 721-740; 1849: atlas pls. 1-61)., available online at http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/usexex/navigation/ScientificText/USExEx19_08select.cfm
page(s): 206, 242-243 [details]
original description (of Goniastrea bournoni Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1849). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 4. Monographie des Astréides (1) (suite). <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 12, 3, 95-197. [details]
original description (of Astraea (Fissicella) eximia Dana, 1846) Dana, J.D. (1846-1849). Zoophytes. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842. <em>Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia.</em> 7: 1-740, 61 pls. (1846: 1-120, 709-720; 1848: 121-708, 721-740; 1849: atlas pls. 1-61)., available online at http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/usexex/navigation/ScientificText/USExEx19_08select.cfm [details]
basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [details]
additional source Veron JEN, Pichon M, Wijsman-Best M. (1977). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part II. Families Faviidae, Trachyphylliidae. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph series.</em> 3: 1-233. [details]
additional source Hoffmeister, J.E. (1925). Some corals from America Samoa and the Fiji Islands. <em>Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.</em> 22: 1-90, pls. 1-23.
page(s): 8, 11, 12, 26 [details]
additional source Vaughan TW. (1918). Some shallow-water corals from Murray Island (Australia), Cocos-Keeling Island, and Fanning Island. <em>Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.</em> 9 (213): 49-234, pls. 20-93. [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): 29 [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): 133 [details]
additional source Robertson R. (1970). Review of the predators and parasites of stony Corals, with special reference to symbiotic Prosobranch Gastropods. <i>Pacific Science 24 (1)</i>: 43-54
page(s): 48, 49 [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): 153, 154, 155 [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): 9, 50, 74 [details]
additional source Matthai G. (1914). A revision of the recent colonial Astraeidae possessing distinct corallites. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 2nd Series Zoology.</em> 17(1): 1-140, pls. 1-38. [details]
additional source Umbgrove JHF. (1940). Madreporaria from the Togian Reefs (Gulf of Tomini, North-Celebes. <em>Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden.</em> 22: 265-310.
page(s): 271, 281-282 [details]
additional source Umbgrove JHF. (1939). Madreporaria from the Bay of Batavia. <em>Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden.</em> 22: 1-64.
page(s): 9, 14, 15, 17, 32 [details]
additional source Yabe H, Sugiyama T, Eguchi M. (1936). Recent reef-building corals from Japan and the South Sea Islands under the Japanese mandate. I. <em>The Science reports of the Tôhoku Imperial University, Sendai, 2nd Series (Geologie).</em> Special Volume 1: 1-66, pls. 1-59.
page(s): 3, 34, Pl. XVIII [details]
additional source Yabe H, Sugiyama T. (1935). Revised list of the reef-corals from the Japanese seas and of the fossil reef corals of the raised reefs and the Ryukyu limestone of Japan. <em>Journal of the Geological Society of Japan.</em> 42: 379-403.
page(s): 384, 386, 388, 390, 394 [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 Crossland C (1952) Madreporaria, Hydrocorallinae, Heliopora and Tubipora. Scientific Report Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-29 VI(3): 85-257.
page(s): 91, 100 [details]
additional source Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1849). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 4. Monographie des Astréides (1) (suite). <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 12, 3, 95-197.
page(s): 161 [details]
additional source Wijsman-Best M (1976) Biological results of the Snellius expedition: XXVII. Faviidae collected by the Snellius Expedition. II. The genera Favites, Goniastrea, Platygyra, Oulophyllia, Leptoria, Hydnophora and Caulastrea. Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden 50: 45-63. [details]
additional source Wijsman-Best M (1972) Systematics and ecology of New Caledonian Faviinae (Coelenterata–Scleractinia). Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 42: 3-90. [details]
additional source Nemenzo F (1959) Systematic studies on Philippine shallow water scleractinians: II. Suborder Faviida. Natural and Applied Science Bulletin, University of the Philippines 16: 73-135, pls. 1-24.
page(s): 75, 98, 100 [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): 32 [details]
additional source Scheer G (1967). Korallen von den Sarso-Inseln im Roten Meer. Senckenbergiana Biologica 48: 421-436. [details]
additional source Huang D, Benzoni F, Fukami H, Knowlton N, Smith ND, Budd AF (2014) Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171: 277–355. [details]
additional source Duncan PM. (1889). On the Madreporaria of the Mergui Archipelago collected for the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta by Dr. John Anderson, F.R.S., Superintendent of the Museum. <em>Journal of the Linnaean Society, London.</em> 21: 1-25., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1886.tb00967.x [details]
additional source Matthai G (1924) Report on the madreporarian corals in the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 8: 1-59. [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.
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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]
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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.
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additional source Ryland, J. S. (1981). Reefs of southwest Viti Levu and their tourism potential. Proceedings of the Fourth International Coral Reef Symposium, 1, 293-298
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additional source Ortmann, A. (1892). Die Korallriffe von Dar-es-Salaam und Umgegend. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher Abteilung für Systematik.</em> 6: 631-670., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10195227
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additional source Foidart, J. (1970). Rapport scientifique de l'Expédition Belge a la Grande Barrière d'Australie en 1967. Madrépores : I. Étude morphologique et systématique comparée de Goniastrea retiformis (Lam.) et Goniastrea parvistella (Dana). Annales de la Société Royale Zoologique de Belgique, 100, 85-114
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additional source Foidart, J. (1970). Rapport scientifique de l'Expédition Belge a la Grande Barrière d'Australie en 1967. Madrépores: II. Variations morphologiques intracoloniaires et altérations du squelette coralliaire. Annales de la Société Royale Zoologique de Belgique, 100, 115-128
page(s): 119, 123 [details]
additional source Foidart, J. (1970). Rapport scientifique de l'Expédition Belge a la Grande Barrière d'Australie en 1967. Madrépores: III. Étude de Goniastrea sp. Annales de la Société Royale Zoologique de Belgique, 101(4): 293-315
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additional source Foidart, J. (1972). Revision de l'holotype de Goniastrea parvistella (Dana). Annales de la Société Royale Zoologique de Belgique, 102, 35-45
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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
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original description (of Astraea retiformis Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, J.-B. M. de. (1816). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome second. <em>Paris. Verdière.</em> Vol. 2 pp. 1-568., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47698 [details]
original description (of Astraea spongia Ehrenberg, 1834) Ehrenberg, C. G. (1834). Beiträge zur physiologischen Kenntniss der Corallenthiere im allgemeinen, und besonders des rothen Meeres, nebst einem Versuche zur physiologischen Systematik derselben. <em>Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin.</em> 1: 225-380., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29725862 [details]
original description (of Astraea eximia Dana, 1846) Dana, J.D. (1846-1849). Zoophytes. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842. <em>Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia.</em> 7: 1-740, 61 pls. (1846: 1-120, 709-720; 1848: 121-708, 721-740; 1849: atlas pls. 1-61)., available online at http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/usexex/navigation/ScientificText/USExEx19_08select.cfm
page(s): 206, 242-243 [details]
original description (of Goniastrea bournoni Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1849). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 4. Monographie des Astréides (1) (suite). <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 12, 3, 95-197. [details]
original description (of Astraea (Fissicella) eximia Dana, 1846) Dana, J.D. (1846-1849). Zoophytes. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842. <em>Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia.</em> 7: 1-740, 61 pls. (1846: 1-120, 709-720; 1848: 121-708, 721-740; 1849: atlas pls. 1-61)., available online at http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/usexex/navigation/ScientificText/USExEx19_08select.cfm [details]
basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [details]
additional source Veron JEN, Pichon M, Wijsman-Best M. (1977). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part II. Families Faviidae, Trachyphylliidae. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph series.</em> 3: 1-233. [details]
additional source Hoffmeister, J.E. (1925). Some corals from America Samoa and the Fiji Islands. <em>Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.</em> 22: 1-90, pls. 1-23.
page(s): 8, 11, 12, 26 [details]
additional source Vaughan TW. (1918). Some shallow-water corals from Murray Island (Australia), Cocos-Keeling Island, and Fanning Island. <em>Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.</em> 9 (213): 49-234, pls. 20-93. [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): 29 [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): 133 [details]
additional source Robertson R. (1970). Review of the predators and parasites of stony Corals, with special reference to symbiotic Prosobranch Gastropods. <i>Pacific Science 24 (1)</i>: 43-54
page(s): 48, 49 [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): 153, 154, 155 [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): 9, 50, 74 [details]
additional source Matthai G. (1914). A revision of the recent colonial Astraeidae possessing distinct corallites. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 2nd Series Zoology.</em> 17(1): 1-140, pls. 1-38. [details]
additional source Umbgrove JHF. (1940). Madreporaria from the Togian Reefs (Gulf of Tomini, North-Celebes. <em>Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden.</em> 22: 265-310.
page(s): 271, 281-282 [details]
additional source Umbgrove JHF. (1939). Madreporaria from the Bay of Batavia. <em>Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden.</em> 22: 1-64.
page(s): 9, 14, 15, 17, 32 [details]
additional source Yabe H, Sugiyama T, Eguchi M. (1936). Recent reef-building corals from Japan and the South Sea Islands under the Japanese mandate. I. <em>The Science reports of the Tôhoku Imperial University, Sendai, 2nd Series (Geologie).</em> Special Volume 1: 1-66, pls. 1-59.
page(s): 3, 34, Pl. XVIII [details]
additional source Yabe H, Sugiyama T. (1935). Revised list of the reef-corals from the Japanese seas and of the fossil reef corals of the raised reefs and the Ryukyu limestone of Japan. <em>Journal of the Geological Society of Japan.</em> 42: 379-403.
page(s): 384, 386, 388, 390, 394 [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 Crossland C (1952) Madreporaria, Hydrocorallinae, Heliopora and Tubipora. Scientific Report Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-29 VI(3): 85-257.
page(s): 91, 100 [details]
additional source Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1849). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 4. Monographie des Astréides (1) (suite). <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 12, 3, 95-197.
page(s): 161 [details]
additional source Wijsman-Best M (1976) Biological results of the Snellius expedition: XXVII. Faviidae collected by the Snellius Expedition. II. The genera Favites, Goniastrea, Platygyra, Oulophyllia, Leptoria, Hydnophora and Caulastrea. Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden 50: 45-63. [details]
additional source Wijsman-Best M (1972) Systematics and ecology of New Caledonian Faviinae (Coelenterata–Scleractinia). Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 42: 3-90. [details]
additional source Nemenzo F (1959) Systematic studies on Philippine shallow water scleractinians: II. Suborder Faviida. Natural and Applied Science Bulletin, University of the Philippines 16: 73-135, pls. 1-24.
page(s): 75, 98, 100 [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): 32 [details]
additional source Scheer G (1967). Korallen von den Sarso-Inseln im Roten Meer. Senckenbergiana Biologica 48: 421-436. [details]
additional source Huang D, Benzoni F, Fukami H, Knowlton N, Smith ND, Budd AF (2014) Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171: 277–355. [details]
additional source Duncan PM. (1889). On the Madreporaria of the Mergui Archipelago collected for the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta by Dr. John Anderson, F.R.S., Superintendent of the Museum. <em>Journal of the Linnaean Society, London.</em> 21: 1-25., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1886.tb00967.x [details]
additional source Matthai G (1924) Report on the madreporarian corals in the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 8: 1-59. [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): 12, 37, 139, 140-141 [details]
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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]
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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.
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additional source Ryland, J. S. (1981). Reefs of southwest Viti Levu and their tourism potential. Proceedings of the Fourth International Coral Reef Symposium, 1, 293-298
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Nontype (of Goniastrea bournoni Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) BMNH, geounit Vietnamese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype HLD X2: 127-52(1,2), geounit Indian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype HLD X2: 136-25, geounit Indian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 38754, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 38755, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 44644, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 44688, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 44958, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 48255, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 48256, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 48709, geounit Marshall Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 49687, geounit Marshall Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 49698, geounit Micronesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 49749, geounit Marshall Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 49757, geounit Marshall Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 50707, geounit Micronesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 50758, geounit Micronesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 50791, geounit Palau Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 50796, geounit Micronesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 51036, geounit Micronesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 51058, geounit Micronesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 53056, geounit Marshall Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 53240, geounit Micronesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 56648, geounit Palau Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 56649, geounit Palau Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype NMSR 8638, geounit Sudanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype NMSR 8639, geounit Sudanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype NMSR 8976, geounit Indian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 121-73, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 159-73, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 179-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 210-83, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 213-84, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 218-73, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 219-73, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 220-73, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 221-84, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 222-84, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 223-73, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 224-73, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 225-73, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 230-84, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 241-73, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 250-74, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 31-72, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 32-72, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 33-72, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 408-86, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 413-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 427-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 431-78, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 432-78, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 440-78, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 457-78, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 610-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 611-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 774-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 785-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
Unknown type (of Goniastraea retiformis (Lamarck, 1816)) MZUS, geounit Singaporean Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unknown type IMC mrt-21 [details]
Unknown type IMC mrt-27, geounit Myanmar Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unknown type IMC, geounit Myanmar Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unknown type IMC, geounit Myanmar Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unknown type IMC, geounit Myanmar Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From editor or global species database
Biology zooxanthellate [details]Unreviewed
Description This species has small calices, usually 3 to 4 mm diameter. Calices are deep and have thin, sharp walls. Septa alternate strongly, and all the first order septa bear a tall, thin paliform lobe. The species occurs on reef slopes, preferring shallow water. It is always found on reef flats and in areas where water temperatures and salinity may be elevated. (Sheppard, 1998 <308>)Colonies are massive or columnar. Calices are 3.5 mm in diameter and four- to six-sided. Septa clearly alternate and are thin and straight with well-developed thin paliform lobes. Colour: cream or pale brown, occasionally brown, pink or green. Abundance: common and usually a dominant of intertidal habitats. Subtidal colonies frequently exceed 1 m in diameter. (Veron, 1986 <57>)
Grows into domed, massive colonies of up to 1 m, commonly less than 50 cm across, but can be dominant on shallow reefs. Corallites are recessed, usually 3-4 mm across, and irregularly arranged in honeycomb pattern with a clear septo-costal structure. Colour: usually pale in colour, ranging from cream to orange, pink, green or dark brown. Habitat: common in eulittoral pools and can withstand considerable exposure at low tide. (Richmond, 1997) [details]
Type locality unrecorded (Veron, 1986). [details]
To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Goniastrea retiformis)
To GenBank (65 nucleotides; 33 proteins) (from synonym Astraea retiformis Lamarck, 1816)
To GenBank (65 nucleotides; 33 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZCOE36698verycloseup) (from synonym Astraea eximia Dana, 1846)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (1 record)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (112 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (2 records) (from synonym Astraea eximia Dana, 1846)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Goniastrea retiformis)
To GenBank (65 nucleotides; 33 proteins) (from synonym Astraea retiformis Lamarck, 1816)
To GenBank (65 nucleotides; 33 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZCOE36698verycloseup) (from synonym Astraea eximia Dana, 1846)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (1 record)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (112 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (2 records) (from synonym Astraea eximia Dana, 1846)
To ITIS
