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Cyphastrea ocellina

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae

Taxonomy
Astrea ocellina was named by Dana (1846). It is extant.

It was recombined as Cyphastrea ocellina by Kiessling et al. (2011).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1846Astrea ocellina Dana
2011Cyphastrea ocellina Kiessling et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
Hexacorallia()
RankNameAuthor
orderScleractiniaBourne 1900
familyMerulinidaeVerrill 1866
genusCyphastreaMilne-Edwards and Haime 1848
speciesocellina(Dana 1846)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragoniteo
Grouping: colonialo
Clonal: yeso
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: stationaryo
Attached: yeso
Life habit: intermediate-level epifaunalo
Diet: microcarnivoreo
Diet 2: photosymbiotico
Vision: blindc
Reproduction: alternatingo
Asexual: yeso
Dispersal: watero
Dispersal 2: planktonico
Created: 2004-02-27 16:54:46
Modified: 2009-10-09 15:38:42
Source: o = order, c = class
Reference: Kiessling 2004

Age range: Middle Pleistocene or 0.77400 to 0.12900 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Pliocene - Pleistocene5.333 - 0.0117USA Minor Outlying Islands Cyphastrea ocellina (109623)
Pleistocene2.58 - 0.0117USA (Hawaii) Cyphastrea ocellina (22975)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129USA (Hawaii) Cyphastrea ocellina (105528)