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| hard corals text index | photo index |
| Phylum Cnidaria > Class Anthozoa > Subclass Zoantharia/Hexacorallia > Order Scleractinia > Family Poritidae > Goniopora sp. |
| Small
goniopora coral Goniopora sp.* Family Poritidae updated Oct 11 Where seen? This small hard coral with tiny polyps are often seen on many of of our shores, including some Northern shores. More commonly seen on our Southern shores. Features: Colonies 10-15cm, small low dome-shaped or encrusting. The corallites are tiny (0.2cm) circular or polygonal, packed close to one another. Polyps tiny (0.5-1cm) with relatively medium length body column. Polyps can retract completely into the skeleton. Colours seen include pink, purple, greenish, yellow and brown. Sometimes, tiny brown acoel flatworms are seen on the oral disk or body columns of anemone coral polyps. May be confused with Favid corals (Family Faviidae) or Pore corals (Porites sp.), but polyp body column of these other corals are not as long as those of Goniopora corals. |
 Labrador, Jun 05  |
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Small goniopora corals on Singapore shores
 Tuas, Dec 03 |
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 Labrador, Jun 05 |
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 Pulau Hantu, Apr 06 |
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 Labrador, May 06 |
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more photos of small goniopora corals on Singapore shores
northern shores part 1 | part 2
southern shores part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 | part 5 | part 6 | part 7 | part 8
*Species are difficult to positively identify without close examination.
On this website, they are grouped by external features for convenience of display.
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