Gardineroseris planulata (Dana, 1846)

Koch, Theres, Ivkić, Angelina, Jones, Lewis A, Scharnhorst, Victor S, Stix, Constanze M, Auer, Antonia, Schöchtner, Theda, Özer, Gözde, Steinwender, Simon, Wallace Daurella, Joseph & Zuschin, Martin, 2025, Quantifying diversity and growth form distribution of scleractinian corals, in Mangrove Bay, El Qoseir, Egypt, Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 134282-e 134282 : e134282-

Gardineroseris planulata (Dana, 1846)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceRemarks: Observed and photographed on a sheltered shallow reef slope; occurrenceStatus: present; occurrenceID: BB4537AB-8A2C-5D65-A4AD-5CAF558B6E87; Taxon: scientificNameID: urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207274; scientificName: Gardineroseris planulata ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Anthozoa; taxonRank: Species; Location: continent: Africa; waterBody: Red Sea; country: Egypt; stateProvince: Muhafazah al Bahr al Ahmar; locality: Sheltered coral reef located on the coastline of Egypt (Mangrove Bay), 29 km south of the coastal city of El Qoseir ; minimumDepthInMeters: 3.7; maximumDepthInMeters: 4.75; verbatimLatitude: N25°52.183′; verbatimLongitude: E034°25.140′; decimalLatitude: 25.8697167; decimalLongitude: 34.419; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Event: samplingEffort: 3 x 20 m Line Intercept Transects; eventDate: 25-10 - 2023; year: 2023; habitat: sheltered shallow reef slope; Record Level: institutionCode: UNIVIE; collectionCode: Coral _ Reef-Mangrove _ Bay-Egypt- 2023; basisOfRecord: HumanObservation

Conservation status

Least Concern

Notes

Fig. 14 .

Figures

Figure 14. The growth form and appearance of Gardineroseris planulata in the reef are shown in (A), while (B) provides a close-up of the colony. Photo credits: Theres Koch.