Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Huang et al. resurrected this genus ignoring the problem of homonymy.
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Parent taxon: Merulinidae according to D. Huang et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Anisocoenia, Antiguastrea, Aquitanastraea, Australogyra, Bikiniastrea, Boninastrea, Cladocora, Coelastrea, Cyphastrea, Dictuophyllia, Diplogyra, Dipsastraea, Echinopora, Edwardsastraea, Erythrastrea, Favites, Goniastrea, Hydnophora, Hydnophyllia, Leptoria, Liptodendron, Merulina, Monticulastraea, Mycedium, Orbicella, Oulophyllia, Paraclavarina, Paragoniastrea, Paraleptoria, Paramontastraea, Parastrea, Pectinia, Phacellocoenia, Platygyra, Plavecia, Procladocora, Scapophyllia, Tarbellastraea, Trachyphyllia, Antillophyllia, Fungophyllia, Echinomorpha
Subtaxa: Astrea annuligera Astrea curta Astrea helianthella Astrea limbata Astrea rotulosa Astrea sanctimihieli Astrea venusta
Type: Cryptocoenia alveolata
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Egypt (2), Eritrea (1), French Polynesia (4), Guam (2), India (5), Indonesia (2), Japan (11), New Caledonia (4), New Zealand (8), Papua New Guinea (12), Pitcairn (2), Saudi Arabia (1), Vanuatu (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indonesia (1)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (4), Japan (2), Taiwan (1), United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Belgium (1), Fiji (1), France (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), New Zealand (1), United States Minor Outlying Islands (1)
• Triassic of Italy (1)
Total: 75 collections including 77 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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