“…The Acroporidae is a family of reef-building corals within the phylum Cnidaria, one of the basal phyla of the animal clade (Richards et al., 2013, Wallace, 2012, Wallace and Rosen, 2006). Astreopora (Anthozoa: Acroporidae) is the sister genus in the acroporid lineage according to fossil records and molecular phylogenetic evidence (Fukami et al., 2000, Suzuki and Nomura, 2013, Wallace, 2012). Importantly, Acropora (Anthozoa: Acroporidae), one of the most diverse genera of reef-building corals, including more than 150 species in the Indo-Pacific Ocean, is thought to have originated from Astreopora ∼60 mya with several species turnovers (Edinger and Risk, 1994, Renema et al., 2008, Wallace, 2012, Wallace and Rosen, 2006).…”