Goniopora Blainville, 1830
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5241577 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D24287AB-FF56-8EA5-7DFF-758F6FADFE16 |
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Felipe |
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Goniopora Blainville, 1830 |
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Genus Goniopora Blainville, 1830 View in CoL
Type species. Goniopora pedunculata Quoy and Gaimard View in CoL , in Blainville, 1830, Recent , New Guinea .
Diagnosis. Colonial. massive, columniform or ramose, rarely incrusting. Gemmation extracalicinal. Corallites united closely or separated by a reticulate coenosteum. Septa subcompact to porous, arranged bilaterally. Pali present. Columella spongy or made of twisted segments. Synapticulae present. Endothecal dissepiments thin, few in number. Wall parathecal or synapticulothecal, incomplete.
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