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Acanthastrea echinata

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae

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

It was recombined as Acanthastrea echinata by Vaughan (1918).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1846Astrea echinata Dana
1918Acanthastrea echinata Vaughan

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
—Hexacorallia()
RankNameAuthor
orderScleractiniaBourne 1900
familyLobophylliidaeDai and Horng 2009
genusAcanthastreaMilne-Edwards and Haime 1848
speciesechinata(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: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Holocene or 20.44000 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (27 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian20.44 - 15.97Iran Acanthastrea echinata (25257)
Langhian15.97 - 13.82Papua New Guinea (East New Britain) Acanthastrea echinata (124822)
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333Indonesia Acanthastrea echinata (108813)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.588Papua New Guinea Acanthastrea echinata (42736)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.588Malaysia Acanthastrea echinata (216166)
Early/Lower Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene2.588 - 0.129Japan Acanthastrea echinata (87980 87981 87998 88000)
Pleistocene - Holocene2.588 - 0.0Japan (Okinawa) Acanthastrea echinata (63135)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Egypt Acanthastrea echinata (120129)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Japan Acanthastrea echinata (88041 88044 88055)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Pitcairn Acanthastrea echinata (85106)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.129 - 0.0117Kenya Acanthastrea echinata (44911 63182)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Saudi Arabia Acanthastrea echinata (80962 80963)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117New Caledonia Acanthastrea echinata (90052)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Pakistan Acanthastrea echinata (192912)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.129 - 0.0117Egypt (Sinai) Acanthastrea echinata (109236 109237)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Eritrea Acanthastrea echinata (93827)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Guam Acanthastrea echinata (97444 97445)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Japan (Chiba) Acanthastrea echinata (97528)