Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Alternative combinations: Madrepora agaricites, Pavonia agaricites, Undaria agaricites
Synonyms: Agaricia crassa Verrill 1901, Agaricia purpurea Lesueur 1821, Undaria crassa Verrill 1901
Belongs to Agaricia according to P. H. De Buisonjé 1974
See also Duncan 1863, Inskipp et al. 2005, Kiessling 2008 and Weisbord 1974
Sister taxa: Agaricia batalleri, Agaricia boletiformis, Agaricia dominicensis, Agaricia elegans, Agaricia fragilis, Agaricia graciosa, Agaricia grahamae, Agaricia lamarcki, Agaricia ramulosa, Agaricia sommeringii, Agaricia sulcata, Agaricia tuberosa, Agaricia undata
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Antigua and Barbuda (1 collection), the Bahamas (5), Barbados (11), Cayman Islands (24), Colombia (2), Costa Rica (61), the Dominican Republic (5), Haiti (3), Jamaica (4), Mexico (1), the Netherlands Antilles (7), Panama (29), United States (8: Florida), Virgin Islands (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Bahamas (1), Costa Rica (9), Jamaica (1)
• Pliocene of the Bahamas (7), Costa Rica (16), the Dominican Republic (2), Haiti (1), Jamaica (1), the Netherlands Antilles (5)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Netherlands Antilles (2), United States (1: Puerto Rico)
• Miocene of the Bahamas (1), the Dominican Republic (6), Haiti (1), Panama (7), Trinidad and Tobago (6)
Total: 229 collections including 260 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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