Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Synonyms: Astroria Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848, Coeloria Edwards and Haime 1848
Parent taxon: Merulinidae according to D. Huang et al. 2014
See also 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, Goniastrea, Hydnophora, Hydnophyllia, Leptoria, Liptodendron, Merulina, Monticulastraea, Mycedium, Orbicella, Oulophyllia, Paraclavarina, Paraleptoria, Paramontastraea, Parastrea, Pectinia, Phacellocoenia, Plavecia, Procladocora, Scapophyllia, Tarbellastraea, Trachyphyllia
Subtaxa: Astroria antiguensis Coeloria andrewsi Coeloria denselephantis Coeloria wellsi Platygyra acuta Platygyra colombiana Platygyra concentrica Platygyra contorta Platygyra crosslandi Platygyra daedalea Platygyra equisepta Platygyra euaensis Platygyra lamellina Platygyra mareensis Platygyra naroetensis Platygyra pini Platygyra renemai Platygyra ryukyuensis Platygyra sinensis Platygyra singularis Platygyra stricta
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (24 collections), China (1), Christmas Island (1), Cook Islands (1), Djibouti (1), Egypt (32), Eritrea (2), Fiji (1), French Polynesia (2), Guam (2), India (5), Indonesia (9), Iran (3), Israel (1), Japan (33), Jordan (1), Kenya (17), Kiribati (1), Maldives (1), Mauritius (3), New Caledonia (17), Northern Mariana Islands (1), Pakistan (4), Papua New Guinea (29), the Philippines (4), Saudi Arabia (10), the Seychelles (5), Sri Lanka (2), Sudan (1), Taiwan (1), United States (1: Hawaii), Vanuatu (8)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Egypt (1), Indonesia (4), the Philippines (1), Saudi Arabia (1)
• Pliocene of Egypt (1), Indonesia (16), Japan (1), Malaysia (3), Papua New Guinea (1), Taiwan (1), United States (1: Hawaii)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Indonesia (4)
• Miocene of Australia (1), France (2), Haiti (1), Indonesia (9), Iran (2), Italy (1), Japan (1), New Zealand (2), Pakistan (1), Papua New Guinea (2), Spain (7), Tanzania (1), Turkey (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Indonesia (1), Somalia (1)
• Oligocene of France (2), Iran (1), Somalia (1)
• Eocene of Christmas Island (1), Colombia (1), the Marshall Islands (1), Pakistan (1), United States (1: California)
• Paleocene of Egypt (1)
Total: 302 collections including 399 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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