Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Alternative combinations: Heliastrea annularis, Madrepora annularis, Montastraea annularis, Montastrea annularis, Phyllocoenia annularis
Belongs to Orbicella according to D. Huang et al. 2014
See also Chevalier 1961, Flórez et al. 2018, Kiessling 2008, Thomas 1938 and Weisbord 1974
Sister taxa: Orbicella benoisti, Orbicella boehmi, Orbicella faveolata, Orbicella franksi, Orbicella limbata, Orbicella linggapadangensis, Orbicella murrayi, Orbicella nancyi, Orbicella pleiades, Orbicella praeheliopora
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Antigua and Barbuda (1 collection), the Bahamas (29), Barbados (30), Belize (7), Cayman Islands (44), Colombia (20), Djibouti (1), the Dominican Republic (9), Eritrea (1), Haiti (10), Jamaica (10), Mexico (2), Montserrat (1), the Netherlands Antilles (40), Panama (16), Puerto Rico (1), Saint Kitts and Nevis (6), Turks and Caicos Islands (1), United States (26: Florida), Venezuela (1), Virgin Islands (9)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Bahamas (1)
• Pliocene of Haiti (2), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Haiti (1), Panama (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (2: Florida)
Total: 274 collections including 275 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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