Heterocyathus aequicostatus Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 (stony coral)
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Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Synonym: Heterocyathus elongatus Hu 1987
Belongs to Heterocyathus according to Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
See also Hu 1987 and Kiessling 2014
Sister taxa: Heterocyathus carthausi, Heterocyathus elberti, Heterocyathus japonicus, Heterocyathus mai, Heterocyathus priscus
Ecology: facultatively mobile low-level epifaunal microcarnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Fiji (1 collection), India (1), Indonesia (2), Japan (5), Taiwan (1), Vanuatu (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Philippines (1), Taiwan (1)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (4), Japan (1), Taiwan (2)
• Miocene of Indonesia (1)
Total: 22 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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