Family Pocilloporidae Gray 1842 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae

Parent taxon: Astrocoeniina according to R. Baron-Szabo 2006

See also López-Pérez 2005 and Perrin et al. 1998

Sister taxa: Acroporidae, Actinastreidae, Astrocoeniidae

Subtaxa: Pocillopora Seriatopora Stylocoeniella Stylophora

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Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (36 collections), Barbados (5), British Indian Ocean Territory (1), Cayman Islands (4), Christmas Island (1), Cocos (Keeling) Islands (1), Cook Islands (1), Costa Rica (2), Djibouti (2), Egypt (24), Eritrea (1), Fiji (1), French Polynesia (32), Guam (2), India (1), Indonesia (6), Israel (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (23), Kenya (8), Madagascar (2), Maldives (1), Mauritius (5), Mexico (32), the Netherlands Antilles (10), New Caledonia (10), New Zealand (3), Northern Mariana Islands (1), Pakistan (3), Palau (2), Panama (14), Papua New Guinea (17), the Philippines (2), Pitcairn (3), Samoa (1), Saudi Arabia (11), the Seychelles (7), Sudan (1), Taiwan (2), Tuvalu (1), United States (7: Hawaii), Vanuatu (5)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1), Indonesia (5), Jamaica (1), Saudi Arabia (1), United States Minor Outlying Islands (1)

• Pliocene of the Bahamas (8), Costa Rica (14), Cuba (3), the Dominican Republic (3), French Polynesia (1), Indonesia (21), Jamaica (2), Malaysia (2), the Netherlands Antilles (17), Papua New Guinea (1), United States (3: Florida, Hawaii)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Aruba (1), Chile (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Indonesia (7), Malaysia (1), United States (1: Puerto Rico)

• Miocene of Angola (1), Anguilla (4), Australia (2), Austria (1), the Bahamas (5), Brazil (2), Bulgaria (1), Colombia (11), Cyprus (1), the Dominican Republic (10), Egypt (5), Fiji (2), France (16), Grenada (7), Haiti (1), Hungary (2), India (1), Indonesia (31), Iran (5), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (2), Libya (1), Malaysia (3), the Marshall Islands (11), Mexico (4), Morocco (1), the Netherlands Antilles (1), New Zealand (3), Pakistan (1), Panama (23), Poland (2), Portugal (2), Puerto Rico (2), Romania (1), Somalia (6), Spain (4), Trinidad and Tobago (7), Turkey (1), United States (2: Florida), United States Minor Outlying Islands (2), Venezuela (2)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Christmas Island (3), United States (2: Florida)

• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (9), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (1), the Dominican Republic (1), France (3), Greece (4), Haiti (2), India (1), Iran (2), Italy (22), Jamaica (2), Libya (3), Malta (3), Mexico (1), Panama (1), Peru (1), Puerto Rico (3), Slovenia (6), Somalia (2), Spain (2), Turkey (4), United States (2: Florida, Georgia), Venezuela (3)

• Eocene to Miocene of the Marshall Islands (2)

• Eocene to Oligocene of Greece (1)

• Eocene of Croatia (6), the Czech Republic (2), Germany (1), Hungary (7), Italy (8), Jamaica (5), the Marshall Islands (3), Mexico (3), North Atlantic (1), Pakistan (2), Panama (1), Papua New Guinea (1), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (4)

• Paleocene of Iran (2), Pakistan (1), United States (1: Alabama)

• Cretaceous of Jamaica (3), Oman (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Senegal (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (1), the United Arab Emirates (3)

Total: 728 collections including 1203 occurrences

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