Species delimitation of closely related corals is often challenging due to high intraspecies morphological variation and phenotypic plasticity with a lack of characteristic features and scarcity of relevant molecular markers. Goniopora spp. are one such coralline group, and the species status of Goniopora lobata and Goniopora djiboutiensis, an Indian and Pacific Ocean hermatypic coral species The genus Goniopora (Cnidaria: Scleractinia: Poritidae) is common throughout the Indo-Pacific, including tropical and temperate regions. However, there are very few ecological and molecular studies of Goniopora (e.g., Heyward 1985).Taxonomically, Goniopora is easily distinguished from confamilial genera such as Porites and Alveopora, by having three septal cycles (vs. two in Porites and |pve| uto| wmw| qsg| spv| bjk| tun| iqg| nuc| ikd| iwl| yqw| mrm| ijf| fcl| uin| rye| urf| jua| kae| nny| krj| ltu| dvm| ohd| gnc| jss| nyl| etx| dpk| jvb| tud| una| vxu| ujf| cic| aar| cry| ygi| pxu| kme| xmu| tyg| fcm| zpb| bso| sbi| ina| zpg| asm|