Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Alternative combinations: Astrea siderea, Madrepora siderea
Belongs to Siderastrea according to Verrill 1901
See also López-Pérez 2005
Sister taxa: Siderastrea (Siderastrea), Siderastrea adkinsi, Siderastrea agariciaformis, Siderastrea banksi, Siderastrea bertrandiana, Siderastrea clarki, Siderastrea columnaris, Siderastrea conferta, Siderastrea crenulata, Siderastrea dalli, Siderastrea dubiosa, Siderastrea froehlichiana, Siderastrea grandis, Siderastrea hillsboroensis, Siderastrea italica, Siderastrea mendenhalli, Siderastrea micrommata, Siderastrea miocenica, Siderastrea pliocenica, Siderastrea propitia, Siderastrea radcliffi, Siderastrea radians, Siderastrea savignyana, Siderastrea scotia, Siderastrea senecta, Siderastrea silecensis, Siderastrea splendida, Siderastrea stellata, Siderastrea tuckerae, Siderastrea vancouverensis, Siderastrea washingtonensis
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Bahamas (3 collections), Barbados (8), Belize (1), Bermuda (1), Bonaire (3), Cape Verde (1), Cayman Islands (19), Colombia (10), Costa Rica (13), Curaçao (18), Dominica (1), the Dominican Republic (9), Haiti (6), Jamaica (4), Mexico (1), Panama (16), Saint Kitts and Nevis (1), United States (7: Florida), Venezuela (1), Virgin Islands (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Costa Rica (7), Jamaica (1)
• Pliocene of the Bahamas (2), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (10), Curaçao (5), the Dominican Republic (1), Haiti (3), Jamaica (1)
• Miocene of Colombia (3), Cuba (1), the Dominican Republic (5), Grenada (1), Haiti (1), Mexico (4), Panama (1), Sint Maarten (1), Somalia (1), Trinidad and Tobago (3)
• Oligocene of France (1)
Total: 179 collections each including a single occurrence
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