Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Alternative spelling: Cyphastraea
Parent taxon: Merulinidae according to D. Huang et al. 2014
See also Kosnik 2002, Osberger 1954, Sepkoski 2002 and Veron 2000
Sister taxa: Anisocoenia, Antiguastrea, Aquitanastraea, Astrea, Australogyra, Bikiniastrea, Boninastrea, Cladocora, Coelastrea, Dictuophyllia, Diplogyra, Dipsastraea, Echinopora, Edwardsastraea, Erythrastrea, Favites, Goniastrea, Hydnophora, Hydnophyllia, Leptoria, Liptodendron, Merulina, Monticulastraea, Mycedium, Orbicella, Oulophyllia, Paraclavarina, Paraleptoria, Paramontastraea, Parastrea, Pectinia, Phacellocoenia, Platygyra, Plavecia, Procladocora, Scapophyllia, Tarbellastraea, Trachyphyllia
Subtaxa: Cyphastraea coloi Cyphastraea costata Cyphastrea aliceae Cyphastrea buddae Cyphastrea chalcidicum Cyphastrea crassa Cyphastrea cymotoma Cyphastrea decadia Cyphastrea gemmulifera Cyphastrea hexasepta Cyphastrea japonica Cyphastrea microphthalma Cyphastrea monticulifera Cyphastrea ocellina Cyphastrea serailia Cyphastrea spinea Cyphastrea tampae Cyphastrea tubifera Cyphastrea wanneri
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (26 collections), China (1), Djibouti (1), Egypt (20), Eritrea (1), French Polynesia (2), Guam (1), Indonesia (6), Iran (1), Israel (1), Japan (48), Kenya (9), Malaysia (1), Mauritius (1), New Caledonia (17), New Zealand (15), Pakistan (3), Papua New Guinea (6), the Philippines (1), Saudi Arabia (3), Taiwan (2), United States (2: Hawaii), Vanuatu (4)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Egypt (1), Indonesia (3), the Philippines (1), Saudi Arabia (1), United States Minor Outlying Islands (1)
• Pliocene of Egypt (1), French Polynesia (1), Indonesia (15), Japan (3), Malaysia (3), Papua New Guinea (1), Taiwan (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Indonesia (7), Malaysia (1)
• Miocene of Fiji (2), Indonesia (17), Iran (4), Italy (1), Japan (2), the Marshall Islands (2), Morocco (2), New Zealand (4), Papua New Guinea (6)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Eocene of Indonesia (1)
Total: 255 collections including 334 occurrences
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