Family Poritidae Gray 1840 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae

Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1840. Poritidae. Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum 41:54-84

Parent taxon: Poriticae according to J. W. Wells 1956

Sister taxon: Actinacididae

Subtaxa: Bernardpora Dictyaraea Goniopora Porites Poritipora Stylaraea

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Type: Porites

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Antigua and Barbuda (1 collection), Australia (61), the Bahamas (19), Barbados (27), Belize (6), Brazil (3), Cape Verde (3), Cayman Islands (43), China (2), Cocos (Keeling) Islands (3), Colombia (26), Cook Islands (9), Costa Rica (38), the Dominican Republic (10), Egypt (55), Eritrea (4), Fiji (2), French Polynesia (42), Guadeloupe (3), Guam (2), Haiti (6), India (6), Indonesia (15), Iran (1), Israel (1), Jamaica (11), Japan (68), Jordan (1), Kenya (34), Kiribati (1), Madagascar (1), Malaysia (1), Maldives (7), the Marshall Islands (1), Mauritius (5), Mayotte (1), Mexico (37), the Netherlands Antilles (16), New Caledonia (17), New Zealand (2), Northern Mariana Islands (1), Pakistan (2), Palau (3), Panama (36), Papua New Guinea (22), the Philippines (7), Pitcairn (3), Saint Kitts and Nevis (1), Samoa (2), Saudi Arabia (20), the Seychelles (9), Somalia (2), Sri Lanka (1), Sudan (1), Taiwan (2), Thailand (1), Tuvalu (1), United States (32: Florida, Hawaii), Vanuatu (11), Virgin Islands (4)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Bahamas (1), China (1), Costa Rica (9), Egypt (1), Indonesia (10), Jamaica (1), the Philippines (1), Saudi Arabia (1), United States (1: Florida), United States Minor Outlying Islands (2)

• Pliocene of the Bahamas (10), Costa Rica (26), Cuba (3), the Dominican Republic (23), Egypt (1), French Polynesia (1), Haiti (3), Indonesia (26), Jamaica (2), Japan (3), Malaysia (1), the Marshall Islands (1), Mexico (1), the Netherlands Antilles (14), Papua New Guinea (1), Portugal (1), Taiwan (1), United States (7: California, Florida, Hawaii)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Aruba (1), Chile (1), the Dominican Republic (6), Indonesia (3), Malaysia (1), the Netherlands Antilles (2), United States (1: Puerto Rico)

• Miocene of Algeria (16), Anguilla (8), Austria (22), the Bahamas (4), Bulgaria (1), Colombia (20), Cyprus (4), the Dominican Republic (40), Egypt (10), Fiji (9), France (23), Germany (2), Greece (9), Haiti (1), Hungary (4), Indonesia (34), Iran (16), Israel (2), Italy (22), Jamaica (1), Japan (2), Libya (2), Madagascar (1), Malaysia (2), Malta (5), the Marshall Islands (7), Mexico (5), Morocco (13), the Netherlands Antilles (1), New Zealand (2), Pakistan (1), Panama (31), Papua New Guinea (4), Poland (5), Portugal (4), Puerto Rico (2), Romania (3), Saudi Arabia (4), Slovakia (1), Somalia (9), Spain (28), Sri Lanka (1), Sudan (1), Tanzania (1), Trinidad and Tobago (10), Turkey (7), Ukraine (2), United States (3: Florida), United States Minor Outlying Islands (2), Venezuela (2)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Somalia (1), United States (2: Florida)

• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (14), Cuba (1), the Dominican Republic (1), France (4), Greece (5), Haiti (1), Hungary (2), India (1), Indonesia (1), Iran (3), Italy (48), Jamaica (2), Libya (1), Malta (7), Mexico (6), Puerto Rico (6), Slovenia (3), Somalia (6), Spain (4), Turkey (5), United States (3: Florida, Georgia, Texas), Venezuela (3)

• Eocene to Oligocene of Greece (1)

• Eocene of Colombia (1), Croatia (1), Cuba (1), France (2), Germany (1), Hungary (4), Indonesia (1), Italy (10), Jamaica (3), Japan (1), Mexico (3), Morocco (2), North Atlantic (1), Pakistan (2), Panama (3), Papua New Guinea (1), Peru (1), Romania (1), Slovenia (2), Spain (9), United States (3: Alabama, California)

• Paleocene of China (1), Iran (1), Italy (1), Pakistan (3), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (2), Slovenia (9), Somalia (1), Spain (2), Turkey (3), Ukraine (1)

• Cretaceous of Austria (1), Cuba (2), the Czech Republic (1), Iran (1), Jamaica (7), Mexico (1), Oman (2), Tunisia (1), the United Arab Emirates (2), United States (4: Mississippi)

Total: 1560 collections including 2463 occurrences

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