Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Synonyms: Goniaraea d'Orbigny 1849, Litharaea Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849, Rothastrea Eliasova 1989
Parent taxon: Poritidae according to J.E.N. Veron 2000
See also Alvarez et al. 1994, Baron-Szabo 2002, Eliasova 1989, Kiessling 2008, López-Pérez 2005, Sepkoski 2002, Squires and Demetrion 1992, Wells 1941 and Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Bernardpora, Dictyaraea, Porites, Poritipora, Stylaraea
Subtaxa: 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 hilli 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
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (11 collections), China (1), Egypt (4), Eritrea (3), Fiji (1), India (1), Indonesia (8), Japan (7), Kenya (3), New Caledonia (3), New Zealand (2), Pakistan (1), Panama (1), Saudi Arabia (3), the Seychelles (2), Somalia (1), Sri Lanka (1), Vanuatu (4)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Bahamas (1), Indonesia (1)
• Pliocene of the Bahamas (1), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (1), the Dominican Republic (3), Indonesia (11), Jamaica (1), Japan (2), Papua New Guinea (1), Taiwan (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (5), Malaysia (1)
• Miocene of Anguilla (8), the Bahamas (1), Colombia (7), Cyprus (2), the Dominican Republic (10), Egypt (2), Fiji (7), France (7), Greece (2), Indonesia (16), Iran (6), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (1), Madagascar (1), Malaysia (1), Mexico (2), Morocco (2), New Zealand (2), Panama (5), Papua New Guinea (3), Puerto Rico (2), Tanzania (1), Trinidad and Tobago (3), United States (1: Florida), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Somalia (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (6), Cuba (1), the Dominican Republic (1), France (4), Greece (4), Haiti (1), Hungary (1), Iran (2), Italy (21), Jamaica (1), Mexico (2), Puerto Rico (3), Slovenia (3), Somalia (1), Spain (4), United States (2: Florida, Georgia)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Greece (1)
• Eocene of Colombia (1), Croatia (1), Cuba (1), France (2), Germany (1), Hungary (4), Indonesia (1), Italy (9), Jamaica (3), Mexico (3), North Atlantic (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (2), Peru (1), Romania (1), Slovenia (2), Spain (8), 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), the United Arab Emirates (2)
Total: 330 collections including 421 occurrences
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