Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Synonym: Barabattoia Yabe and Sugiyama 1941
Parent taxon: Merulinidae according to D. Huang et al. 2014
See also Kiessling 2021 and Veron 2000
Sister taxa: Anisocoenia, Antiguastrea, Aquitanastraea, Astrea, Australogyra, Bikiniastrea, Boninastrea, Cladocora, Coelastrea, Cyphastrea, Dictuophyllia, Diplogyra, 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: Dipsastraea amicorum Dipsastraea favus Dipsastraea helianthoides Dipsastraea lacuna Dipsastraea laxa Dipsastraea lizardensis Dipsastraea maritima Dipsastraea matthaii Dipsastraea maxima Dipsastraea pallida Dipsastraea rotumana Dipsastraea speciosa Dipsastraea veroni
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (6 collections), Djibouti (2), Egypt (15), Eritrea (1), French Polynesia (2), Guam (3), India (5), Indonesia (6), Japan (37), Jordan (3), New Caledonia (13), New Zealand (6), Pakistan (4), Papua New Guinea (21), the Philippines (1), Pitcairn (2), Saudi Arabia (10), the Seychelles (1), Sudan (1), Taiwan (2), Tuvalu (1), Vanuatu (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indonesia (5), the Philippines (1), Saudi Arabia (1)
• Pliocene of India (1), Indonesia (17), Japan (5), Malaysia (1), Papua New Guinea (1), Taiwan (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Indonesia (2)
• Miocene of Fiji (1), Indonesia (9), Iran (2)
• Oligocene of France (1)
• Eocene of Italy (2), the Marshall Islands (1)
• Tertiary of Indonesia (1)
Total: 195 collections including 280 occurrences
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