Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Belongs to Pocillopora according to Ellis and Solander 1786
Sister taxa: Pocillopora arnoldi, Pocillopora baracoaensis, Pocillopora capitata, Pocillopora crassoramosa, Pocillopora damicornis, Pocillopora elegans, Pocillopora guadalupensis, Pocillopora guantanamensis, Pocillopora informis, Pocillopora jenkinsi, Pocillopora ligulata, Pocillopora maddenensis, Pocillopora madreporacea, Pocillopora palmata, Pocillopora robusta, Pocillopora verrucosa, Pocillopora woodjonesi
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), French Polynesia (3), Guam (1), Japan (2), Madagascar (1), Mauritius (1), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (1), the Philippines (1), Pitcairn (3), the Seychelles (2), United States (2: Hawaii)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (1), Papua New Guinea (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Indonesia (1)
Total: 22 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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