Size: 10 to 20 cm

 

Key Features: Brown or green, usually with distinctively coloured oral discs and pale tips to the tentacles. Colonies are hemispherical or encrusting. Calices are circular in outline, with thick walls. There are usually six thick pali which are in contact, forming a crown. All septal structures are heavily granulated.

 

Diet: Brine Shrimp Nauplii, Dustfood , Lobster Eggs, Plankton, Zooxanthellae / Light

 

Habitat: This species is found in subtidal reef environments, especially lagoons, generally to depths of 30 m. In the Red Sea this species is a relatively inconspicuous coral found on reef slopes down to 20 m deep.

 

Conservation status: Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

 

 

 

 

 

References:

IUCN Red List. http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/133607/0

 

Goniopora minor. In Australian Institute of Marine Science. Retrieved on June 18, 2014 from http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0199

 

Goniopora minor. In Reeflex , the Marine Aquarium Encyclopedia. Retrieved on June 18, 2014 from http://www.reeflex.net/tiere/937_Goniopora_minor.htm

 

Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) Project, Second Interim Progress Report, GEER Foundation, June 2012

 

 

Photo Courtesy

Charlie Veron. Australian Institute of Marine  Science. Licensed under CC BY-NC 3.0 via Creative Commons

Flowerpot Coral (Goniopora minor)