Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Parent taxon: Astrocoeniina according to R. Baron-Szabo 2006
See also López-Pérez 2005 and Perrin et al. 1998
Sister taxa: Acroporidae, Actinastreidae, Astrocoeniidae
Subtaxa: Pocillopora Seriatopora Stylocoeniella Stylophora
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (36 collections), Barbados (5), British Indian Ocean Territory (1), Cayman Islands (4), Christmas Island (1), Cocos (Keeling) Islands (1), Cook Islands (1), Costa Rica (2), Curaçao (10), Djibouti (2), Egypt (24), Eritrea (1), Fiji (1), French Polynesia (32), Guam (2), India (1), Indonesia (6), Israel (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (23), Kenya (8), Madagascar (2), Maldives (1), Mauritius (5), Mexico (32), New Caledonia (10), New Zealand (3), Northern Mariana Islands (1), Pakistan (3), Palau (2), Panama (14), Papua New Guinea (17), the Philippines (2), Pitcairn (3), Samoa (1), Saudi Arabia (11), the Seychelles (7), Sudan (1), Taiwan (2), Tuvalu (1), United States (7: Hawaii), Vanuatu (5)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1), Indonesia (5), Jamaica (1), Saudi Arabia (1), United States Minor Outlying Islands (1)
• Pliocene of the Bahamas (8), Costa Rica (14), Curaçao (17), the Dominican Republic (3), French Polynesia (1), Indonesia (21), Jamaica (2), Malaysia (2), Papua New Guinea (1), United States (3: Florida, Hawaii)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Aruba (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Indonesia (7), Malaysia (2), South Pacific (1), United States (1: Puerto Rico)
• Miocene of Angola (1), Anguilla (4), Australia (2), Austria (1), the Bahamas (5), Brazil (2), Bulgaria (1), Colombia (11), Cuba (3), Curaçao (1), Cyprus (1), the Dominican Republic (10), Egypt (5), Fiji (2), France (16), Grenada (7), Haiti (1), Hungary (3), India (1), Indonesia (29), Iran (5), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (2), Libya (1), Malaysia (2), the Marshall Islands (11), Mexico (4), Morocco (1), New Zealand (3), Pakistan (1), Panama (23), Poland (2), Portugal (2), Puerto Rico (2), Romania (1), Sao Tome and Principe (1), Somalia (6), Spain (4), Trinidad and Tobago (7), Türkiye (1), United States (2: Florida), United States Minor Outlying Islands (2), Venezuela (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Christmas Island (3), Iran (1), United States (2: Florida)
• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (9), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (1), the Dominican Republic (3), France (3), Greece (4), India (1), Iran (2), Italy (26), Jamaica (2), Libya (3), Malta (24), Mexico (1), Panama (1), Peru (1), Puerto Rico (3), Slovenia (6), Somalia (2), Spain (2), Türkiye (4), United States (2: Florida, Georgia), Venezuela (3)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Greece (1)
• Eocene to Miocene of the Marshall Islands (2)
• Eocene of Croatia (6), Czechia (2), Germany (1), Hungary (7), Italy (8), Jamaica (5), the Marshall Islands (3), Mexico (3), Pakistan (2), Panama (1), Papua New Guinea (1), Saint Barthélemy (1), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (4)
• Paleocene of Iran (2), Pakistan (1), United States (2: Alabama, California)
• Cretaceous of Jamaica (3), Oman (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Senegal (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (1), the United Arab Emirates (3)
Total: 755 collections including 1217 occurrences