Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Synonym: Undaria Oken 1815
Parent taxon: Agariciidae according to A. F. Budd and D. F. McNeill 1998
See also Kiessling 2014, Sepkoski 2002 and Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Coeloseris, Cyathoseris, Helioseris, Heterogyra, Hydnophoroseris, Lamellofungia, Leptoseris, Maeandrella, Mioseris, Monticuliphyllia, Morphastrea, Ogilviastraea, Pachyseris, Pavona, Plocoastraea, Trochoseris, Trochoseropsis, Valloria, Vaughanoseris
Subtaxa: Agaricia agaricites Agaricia batalleri Agaricia dominicensis Agaricia elegans Agaricia fragilis Agaricia grahamae Agaricia lamarcki Agaricia sommeringii Agaricia undata Undaria manxensis
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Antigua and Barbuda (1 collection), Australia (1), the Bahamas (5), Barbados (12), Belize (3), Bonaire (3), Brazil (3), Cayman Islands (26), Colombia (2), Costa Rica (67), Curaçao (4), the Dominican Republic (7), Haiti (2), Jamaica (4), Mexico (1), Panama (31), Taiwan (1), United States (8: Florida), Virgin Islands (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Bahamas (1), Costa Rica (9), Jamaica (1)
• Pliocene of the Bahamas (7), Costa Rica (16), Curaçao (5), the Dominican Republic (4), Haiti (3), Jamaica (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Bonaire (1), Curaçao (3), the Dominican Republic (1), United States (1: Puerto Rico)
• Miocene of the Bahamas (1), Colombia (1), Cuba (1), the Dominican Republic (8), France (1), Haiti (1), Indonesia (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (9), Puerto Rico (2), Spain (2), Trinidad and Tobago (7)
• Oligocene of the Dominican Republic (1), France (2)
Total: 275 collections including 446 occurrences
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