Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae

Synonyms: Goniopora aucillana Weisbord 1973, Goniopora canalis Vaughan 1919, Goniopora jacobiana Vaughan 1919, Goniopora tampaensis Weisbord 1973

Full reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1919. Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 103:189-524

Belongs to Goniopora according to Vaughan 1919

See also Flórez et al. 2019, Johnson and Kirby 2006, López-Pérez 2005, Vaughan 1919 and Weisbord 1973

Sister taxa: Goniopora affinis, Goniopora aldrichi, Goniopora ameliana, Goniopora astraeoides, Goniopora bieskidensis, Goniopora calhounensis, Goniopora christianiaensis, Goniopora ciliatus, Goniopora columna, Goniopora daxitertia, Goniopora decaturensis, Goniopora djiboutiensis, Goniopora elegans, Goniopora globulosa, Goniopora granosa, Goniopora imperatoris, Goniopora katzeri, Goniopora laurina, Goniopora lobata, Goniopora lubinensis, Goniopora micrantha, Goniopora microscopica, Goniopora microsiderea, Goniopora minor, Goniopora nodulosa, Goniopora norfolkensis, Goniopora octopartita, Goniopora palmensis, Goniopora panamensis, Goniopora planulata, Goniopora polyformis, Goniopora regularis, Goniopora retifera, Goniopora reussiana, Goniopora rudis, Goniopora savignyi, Goniopora somaliensis, Goniopora stokesi, Goniopora stutchburyi, Goniopora tenella, Goniopora tenuidens, Goniopora turonensis, Goniopora vaughani, Goniopora websteri

Type specimens:

• Goniopora hilli: Its type locality is Vaughn Station 601 - Empire [Emperador Limestone], which is in an Aquitanian reef, buildup or bioherm limestone in the Culebra Formation of Panama
• Goniopora aucillana: Its type locality is Aucilla River, Cabbage Grove, which is in an Oligocene shallow subtidal limestone in the Suwannee Limestone Formation of Florida.
• Goniopora canalis: Its type locality is Vaughn Station 601 - Empire [Emperador Limestone], which is in an Aquitanian reef, buildup or bioherm limestone in the Culebra Formation of Panama.
• Goniopora jacobiana: Its type locality is Santiago [La Cruz Fm], which is in a Pliocene perireef or subreef marl in the La Cruz Formation of Cuba.
• Goniopora tampaensis: Its type locality is Ballast Point, Silex Bed [Tampa Limestone], which is in a Chattian/Aquitanian shallow subtidal limestone in the Arcadia Formation of Florida.

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder

Distribution:

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