Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Synonyms: Acrhelia Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849, Acrohelia Milne-Edwards and Haime 1857
Parent taxon: Euphylliidae according to A. F. Budd et al. 2012
See also Kiessling 2014, Sepkoski 2002 and Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Ctenella, Fimbriaphyllia, Gyrosmilia, Montigyra, Simplastrea, Euphyllia, Catalaphyllia
Subtaxa: Galaxea acrhelia Galaxea astreata Galaxea elegantissima Galaxea excelsa Galaxea fascicularis Galaxea haligena Galaxea horrescens Galaxea junghuhni Galaxea kabairaensis Galaxea paucisepta Galaxea salayarensis
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (35 collections), China (1), Djibouti (1), Egypt (27), India (1), Indonesia (5), Japan (20), Kenya (19), Malaysia (1), Mauritius (2), Mayotte (1), New Caledonia (2), Papua New Guinea (2), Saudi Arabia (8), the Seychelles (4), Somalia (1), Sri Lanka (1), Sudan (1), Taiwan (1), Vanuatu (6)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indonesia (1)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (10), Japan (1), Malaysia (2), Papua New Guinea (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Malaysia (1)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Fiji (4), Indonesia (11), Iran (3), Malaysia (1), Papua New Guinea (2), United States Minor Outlying Islands (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Iran (1), Jamaica (1)
• Eocene of the Marshall Islands (1)
Total: 182 collections including 210 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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