Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Alternative spelling: Goniastraea
Synonym: Lamellastraea Duncan 1867
Parent taxon: Merulinidae according to D. Huang et al. 2014
See also Kiessling 2014, López-Pérez 2005, Sepkoski 2002, Veron 2000 and Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Anisocoenia, Antiguastrea, Aquitanastraea, Astrea, Australogyra, Bikiniastrea, Boninastrea, Cladocora, Coelastrea, Cyphastrea, Dictuophyllia, Diplogyra, Dipsastraea, Echinopora, Edwardsastraea, Erythrastrea, Favites, Hydnophora, Hydnophyllia, Leptoria, Liptodendron, Merulina, Monticulastraea, Mycedium, Orbicella, Oulophyllia, Paraclavarina, Paraleptoria, Paramontastraea, Parastrea, Pectinia, Phacellocoenia, Platygyra, Plavecia, Procladocora, Scapophyllia, Tarbellastraea, Trachyphyllia
Subtaxa: Goniastrea aloysiisabaudiae Goniastrea australensis Goniastrea canalis Goniastrea capitata Goniastrea cocchii Goniastrea columella Goniastrea crassisepta Goniastrea curasavica Goniastrea delemontana Goniastrea edwardsi Goniastrea favulus Goniastrea grandiflora Goniastrea insignis Goniastrea longula Goniastrea matanomadhensis Goniastrea muralis Goniastrea parvistella Goniastrea parvula Goniastrea pectinata Goniastrea peresi Goniastrea retiformis Goniastrea stelligera Goniastrea tenera
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (61 collections), Christmas Island (3), Djibouti (1), Egypt (31), Eritrea (3), Fiji (1), French Polynesia (6), Guam (2), India (5), Indonesia (5), Iran (3), Israel (1), Japan (32), Kenya (21), Madagascar (1), Malaysia (1), Mauritius (3), Mayotte (2), New Caledonia (14), New Zealand (14), Pakistan (3), Palau (1), Papua New Guinea (25), the Philippines (5), Pitcairn (1), Saudi Arabia (9), the Seychelles (8), Sri Lanka (3), Taiwan (1), Vanuatu (8)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Egypt (1), Indonesia (4), the Philippines (2), Saudi Arabia (1)
• Pliocene of Egypt (1), French Polynesia (1), Indonesia (24), Japan (4), Malaysia (2), Papua New Guinea (2), Taiwan (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Indonesia (4)
• Miocene of Colombia (1), Cyprus (2), Egypt (1), Fiji (1), France (1), Indonesia (3), Iran (1), Italy (2), Japan (1), Malaysia (1), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (1), Papua New Guinea (2), Saudi Arabia (1), Somalia (1), Tanzania (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (3), Iran (1), Jamaica (1), Mexico (3), Somalia (1), Venezuela (1)
• Eocene of Hungary (1), Italy (2), Pakistan (1), Panama (1)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), India (1)
• Cretaceous of Jamaica (1), the United Arab Emirates (1)
Total: 364 collections including 540 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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