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Erythrastrea

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae

Taxonomy
Erythrastrea was named by Scheer and Pillai (1983) [m. kosnik taxon no: 11164]. It is extant.

It was assigned to Faviidae by Veron (2000); and to Merulinidae by Huang et al. (2014).

Species lacking formal opinion data
Entered
by M. Kosnik on 2004-09-24; modified by A. Girndt on 2013-04-30

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1983Erythrastrea Scheer and Pillai
2000Erythrastrea Veron p. 98
2014Erythrastrea Huang et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
Hexacorallia()
RankNameAuthor
orderScleractiniaBourne 1900
familyMerulinidaeVerrill 1866
genusErythrastreaScheer and Pillai 1983

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.

G. Erythrastrea Scheer and Pillai 1983
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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: base of the Middle Pleistocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 0.77400 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene0.774 - 0.0117Egypt (Red Sea) E. flabellata (234196)