NMITA: Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America

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Goniopora

Goniopora Blainville, 1830

Morphologic Description: cerioid to subplocoid; 3 septal cycles; bilateral symmetry.

Morphologic Diagnosis: Colony Form: subcerioid or plocoid, Colony Shape: massive or branching, Budding: extramural, Columella: trabecular and discontinuous, Corallite Size: medium (1.5 - 10mm), Wall Structure: synapticulothecal, Lobes: paliform.

Species (4 total):

• G. calhounensis Weisbord, 1971; CC species #78 (extinct).
• G. hilli Vaughan, 1919; CC species #79 (extinct).
• G. imperatoris Vaughan, 1919; CC species #80 (extinct).
• G. panamensis Vaughan, 1919; CC species #81(extinct).

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Last updated on October 24, 1996-afb.

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