Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Parent taxon: Acroporidae according to Kitahara et al. 2010
See also López-Pérez 2005, Sepkoski 2002 and Veron 2000
Sister taxa: Acropora, Anacropora, Astreopora, Bacarella, Dendracis, Diplocoenia, Etallonasteria, Gravieropsammia, Isopora, Montipora, Palaestraeopora, Paretallonia
Subtaxa: Alveopora allingi Alveopora atarensis Alveopora chiapanecae Alveopora daedalea Alveopora daxensis Alveopora deningeri Alveopora fenestrata Alveopora japonica Alveopora jessicae Alveopora micropora Alveopora oliveri Alveopora polyacantha Alveopora rudis Alveopora somaliensis Alveopora spongiosa Alveopora tampae Alveopora verrilliana
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), French Polynesia (3), Indonesia (2), Japan (5), Kenya (2), Mauritius (1), New Caledonia (1), New Zealand (1), the Seychelles (1), Vanuatu (2)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (7), Japan (2), Papua New Guinea (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Indonesia (1)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Colombia (7), Egypt (1), Fiji (2), France (4), Indonesia (14), Iran (2), Japan (1), Madagascar (1), Malaysia (1), the Marshall Islands (2), New Zealand (2), Papua New Guinea (3), Somalia (3)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (2: Florida)
• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (11), France (2), Greece (2), Indonesia (1), Iran (1), Italy (22), Jamaica (2), Mexico (1), Puerto Rico (1), Slovenia (1), United States (1: Georgia), Venezuela (2)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Greece (1)
• Eocene of Germany (2), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), the Marshall Islands (1), Panama (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (3)
• Paleocene of China (1), India (1), Italy (1)
Total: 137 collections including 159 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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