Leptastrea Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Leptastreidae

Parent taxon: Leptastreidae according to Rowlett 2020

See also López-Pérez 2005, Sepkoski 2002 and Veron 2000

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Leptastrea bewickensis Leptastrea bottae Leptastrea hertleini Leptastrea pruinosa Leptastrea purpurea Leptastrea transversa

view classification

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), Djibouti (1), Egypt (4), Eritrea (1), French Polynesia (9), Guam (2), India (2), Indonesia (6), Iran (2), Japan (11), Jordan (1), Kenya (7), Mauritius (2), New Caledonia (8), New Zealand (10), Pakistan (1), Papua New Guinea (4), the Philippines (1), Saudi Arabia (6), the Seychelles (2), United States (3: Hawaii), Vanuatu (3)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indonesia (2), Saudi Arabia (1)

• Pliocene of Indonesia (7), Japan (2), Papua New Guinea (1), United States (1: Hawaii)

• Miocene of Egypt (2), Fiji (2), New Zealand (4), Papua New Guinea (2), Türkiye (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Iran (1)

• Oligocene of New Zealand (2)

• Eocene of Indonesia (1), United States (2: California, Washington)

Total: 119 collections including 134 occurrences

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.