Goniastrea Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae

Alternative spelling: Goniastraea

Synonym: Lamellastraea Duncan 1867

Parent taxon: Merulinidae according to D. Huang et al. 2014

See also Kiessling 2014, López-Pérez 2005, Sepkoski 2002, Veron 2000 and Wells 1956

Sister taxa: Anisocoenia, Antiguastrea, Aquitanastraea, Astrea, Australogyra, Bikiniastrea, Boninastrea, Cladocora, Coelastrea, Cyphastrea, Dictuophyllia, Diplogyra, Dipsastraea, Echinopora, Edwardsastraea, Erythrastrea, Favites, Hydnophora, Hydnophyllia, Leptoria, Liptodendron, Merulina, Monticulastraea, Mycedium, Orbicella, Oulophyllia, Paraclavarina, Paragoniastrea, Paraleptoria, Paramontastraea, Parastrea, Pectinia, Phacellocoenia, Platygyra, Plavecia, Procladocora, Scapophyllia, Tarbellastraea, Trachyphyllia

Subtaxa: Goniastrea aloysiisabaudiae Goniastrea australensis Goniastrea canalis Goniastrea capitata Goniastrea cocchii Goniastrea columella Goniastrea crassisepta Goniastrea curasavica Goniastrea delemontana Goniastrea edwardsi Goniastrea favulus Goniastrea grandiflora Goniastrea insignis Goniastrea longula Goniastrea matanomadhensis Goniastrea muralis Goniastrea parvistella Goniastrea parvula Goniastrea pectinata Goniastrea retiformis Goniastrea stelligera Goniastrea tenera Goniastrea thiergartensis

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Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (61 collections), Christmas Island (3), Djibouti (1), Egypt (28), Eritrea (3), Fiji (1), French Polynesia (6), Guam (2), India (5), Indonesia (5), Iran (3), Israel (1), Japan (32), Kenya (21), Madagascar (1), Malaysia (1), Mauritius (3), Mayotte (2), New Caledonia (14), New Zealand (14), Pakistan (3), Palau (1), Papua New Guinea (25), the Philippines (5), Pitcairn (1), Saudi Arabia (9), the Seychelles (8), Sri Lanka (3), Taiwan (1), Vanuatu (8)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Egypt (1), Indonesia (4), the Philippines (2), Saudi Arabia (1)

• Pliocene of Egypt (1), French Polynesia (1), Indonesia (24), Japan (4), Malaysia (2), Papua New Guinea (2), Taiwan (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Indonesia (4)

• Miocene of Colombia (1), Cyprus (2), Egypt (1), Fiji (1), France (1), Indonesia (3), Iran (1), Italy (2), Japan (1), Malaysia (1), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (1), Papua New Guinea (2), Saudi Arabia (1), Somalia (1), Tanzania (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida)

• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (3), Iran (1), Jamaica (1), Mexico (3), Somalia (1), Venezuela (1)

• Eocene of Hungary (1), Italy (2), Pakistan (1), Panama (1)

• Paleocene of Austria (1), India (1)

• Cretaceous of Jamaica (1), the United Arab Emirates (1)

Total: 361 collections including 536 occurrences

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