Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Synonyms: Hydnophorabacia d'Achiardi 1875, Pavona (Pseudocolumnastrea) Yabe and Sugiyama 1933, Pseudocolumnastrea Yabe and Sugiyama 1933, Reussastraea d'Achiardi 1875, Tichoseris Quelch 1884
Parent taxon: Agariciidae according to J. W. Wells 1956
See also Baron-Szabo 2008, Inskipp et al. 2005, Kiessling 2009, López-Pérez 2005 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Agaricia, Coeloseris, Cyathoseris, Helioseris, Heterogyra, Hydnophoroseris, Lamellofungia, Leptoseris, Maeandrella, Mioseris, Monticuliphyllia, Morphastrea, Ogilviastraea, Pachyseris, Plocoastraea, Trochoseris, Trochoseropsis, Valloria, Vaughanoseris
Subtaxa: Pavona (Pavona) Pavona (Pseudocolumnastrea) modeloensis Pavona banoensis Pavona bipartita Pavona bronni Pavona burdigalensis Pavona cactus Pavona clavus Pavona danai Pavona decussata Pavona duerdeni Pavona explanulata Pavona frondifera Pavona gigantea Pavona javana Pavona longicollis Pavona machapooriensis Pavona maldivensis Pavona matheroni Pavona microstoma Pavona minuta Pavona panamensis Pavona pennyi Pavona profunda Pavona ruvida Pavona trinitatis Pavona variabilis Pavona varians Pavona venosa Pavona yamanarii
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (10 collections), China (1), Djibouti (1), Egypt (6), French Polynesia (11), Haiti (1), Indonesia (4), Japan (16), Kenya (3), Malaysia (1), Mauritius (1), Mexico (7), New Caledonia (11), New Zealand (10), Panama (2), the Philippines (1), Pitcairn (2), Saudi Arabia (5), United States (5: Hawaii)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indonesia (4), United States Minor Outlying Islands (2)
• Pliocene of the Bahamas (1), Indonesia (10), Papua New Guinea (1), Taiwan (1), United States (1: Hawaii)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Indonesia (4)
• Miocene of Australia (1), the Bahamas (1), Colombia (1), the Dominican Republic (2), Egypt (1), Fiji (1), France (4), Grenada (1), Indonesia (10), Iran (2), Italy (1), Mexico (2), Panama (5), Spain (1), Trinidad and Tobago (4)
• Oligocene of France (3), Greece (4), Italy (26), Jamaica (1)
• Eocene to Miocene of the Marshall Islands (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Greece (1)
• Eocene of Barbados (1), Italy (3), Spain (1)
• Paleocene of Pakistan (1)
Total: 201 collections including 259 occurrences
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