Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Leptastreidae
Alternative combination: Astrea purpurea
Synonym: Leptastrea ehrenbergana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849
Belongs to Leptastrea according to Vaughan 1918
See also Chevalier 1968 and Kiessling et al. 2011
Sister taxa: Leptastrea bewickensis, Leptastrea bottae, Leptastrea hertleini, Leptastrea pruinosa, Leptastrea transversa
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Guam (1), Indonesia (5), Japan (5), New Caledonia (6), Papua New Guinea (3), Saudi Arabia (5), United States (2: Hawaii)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indonesia (1), Saudi Arabia (1)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (3)
• Miocene of Fiji (1)
• Eocene of Indonesia (1)
Total: 35 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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