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Agaricia

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae

Taxonomy
Agaricia was named by Lamarck (1801) [Sepkoski's age data: T Mi-m R]. It is extant.

It was assigned to Agariciidae by Wells (1956); and to Scleractinia by Sepkoski (2002).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1801Agaricia Lamarck
1815Undaria Oken
1956Agaricia Wells p. F381
1998Undaria Budd and McNeill
2002Agaricia Sepkoski
2002Undaria Sepkoski

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
Hexacorallia()
orderScleractiniaBourne 1900
RankNameAuthor
suborderFungiinaVerrill 1865
superfamilyAgariciicaeGray 1847
familyAgariciidaeGray 1847
genusAgariciaLamarck 1801

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Agaricia Lamarck 1801
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Agaricia agaricites Linnaeus 1758
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Invalid names: Agaricia crassa Verrill 1901 [synonym], Agaricia purpurea Lesueur 1821 [synonym]
Agaricia batalleri Chevalier 1961
Agaricia dominicensis Vaughan 1919
Agaricia grahamae Wells 1973
Agaricia lamarcki Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851
Agaricia undata Ellis and Solander 1786
Invalid names: Undaria Oken 1815 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragoniteo
Grouping: colonialo
Clonal: yeso
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: stationaryo
Attached: yeso
Life habit: intermediate-level epifaunalo
Diet: microcarnivoreo
Diet 2: photosymbiotico
Vision: blindc
Reproduction: alternatingo
Asexual: yeso
Dispersal: watero
Dispersal 2: planktonico
Created: 2004-02-27 16:54:46
Modified: 2009-10-09 15:38:42
Source: o = order, c = class
Reference: Kiessling 2004

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Chattian to the top of the Holocene or 28.10000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 23.03 Ma

Collections (273 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Oligocene28.4 - 23.03Haiti A. sp. (61199)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03France A. okeni (70067 163836)
Aquitanian23.03 - 20.44Spain A. batalleri (69927 69928)
Aquitanian23.03 - 20.44France A. okeni (161396)
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Indonesia A. sp. (109009)
Miocene23.03 - 5.333Colombia A. sp., A. undata (73800)
Burdigalian20.44 - 15.97Pakistan (Sind) A. danae (11292)
Burdigalian - Serravallian20.44 - 11.62Trinidad and Tobago A. undata (27594) A. undata, Undaria crassa (27584 27588 27591) Undaria crassa (27585 27592 27595)
Middle Miocene15.97 - 11.608Dominican Republic A. sp., A. dominicensis (124722)
Middle Miocene15.97 - 11.608Puerto Rico A. sp. (45405)
Middle Miocene - Late/Upper Miocene15.97 - 5.333Puerto Rico A. sp. (45406)
Serravallian13.82 - 11.62Panama A. sp. (120409 120410)
Tortonian11.62 - 7.246Dominican Republic Undaria agaricites (41065) Undaria agaricites, A. lamarcki (34515 34516 34517)
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333Haiti A. agaricites (60107)
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333Dominican Republic A. sp. (124779)
Late/Upper Miocene - Early/Lower Pliocene11.608 - 3.6USA (Puerto Rico) Undaria agaricites (71245)
Late/Upper Miocene - Early/Lower Pliocene11.608 - 3.6Dominican Republic A. sp. (124780)
Late/Upper Miocene - Pliocene11.608 - 2.588Netherlands Antilles A. agaricites (209174) A. agaricites, A. dominicensis (209192) A. dominicensis (209181 209182)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333Panama A. sp., Undaria crassa (120358) Undaria agaricites (120356 120357 120395) Undaria agaricites, A. undata, Undaria crassa (120392) Undaria agaricites, Undaria crassa (120360) Undaria pusilla, Undaria crassa (120390)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333Bahamas A. lamarcki, Undaria crassa (73644)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333Dominican Republic Undaria agaricites, Undaria crassa (41067 41068)
Zanclean5.333 - 3.6Netherlands Antilles Undaria agaricites (41035)
Zanclean5.333 - 3.6Dominican Republic A. sp., A. dominicensis (93642) Undaria agaricites (41070 41114)
Zanclean5.333 - 3.6Costa Rica Undaria crassa (41072)
Early/Lower Pliocene - Late/Upper Pliocene5.333 - 2.588Costa Rica A. agaricites (124266) Undaria agaricites (71380 71381 71384 71385 71386 71387 71394 71395 71397 71409) Undaria agaricites, A. lamarcki, Undaria crassa (71374) Undaria agaricites, Undaria crassa (71396 71398 71410)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.588Dominican Republic A. dominicensis (124702)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.588Haiti A. agaricites (60894) A. dominicensis (66809 66810) A. sp. (60897)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.588Jamaica Undaria agaricites, Undaria crassa (34540)
Pliocene - Pleistocene5.333 - 0.0117Jamaica Undaria agaricites, A. lamarcki, A. undata (34543)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.588USA (Florida) A. dominicensis (79958)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.588Cuba A. dominicensis (71135)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.588Bahamas Undaria agaricites (73662) Undaria agaricites, A. lamarcki (73658) Undaria agaricites, Undaria crassa (73651 73659) Undaria crassa (73648 73649 73661)
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.588Netherlands Antilles Undaria agaricites (41039 41046 41050) Undaria agaricites, Undaria crassa (41051)
Late/Upper Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene3.6 - 0.781Costa Rica Undaria agaricites (71411 71412 71415 71418 71419 71421) Undaria agaricites, Undaria crassa, Undaria pusilla (71414) Undaria crassa (71417)
Late/Upper Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene3.6 - 0.781Bahamas Undaria agaricites (73663)
Gelasian2.588 - 1.806Jamaica Undaria agaricites, A. lamarcki (34541)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Costa Rica A. grahamae (71727 71751) A. grahamae, A. lamarcki (71734) A. grahamae, A. lamarcki, A. undata (71738) A. grahamae, A. undata (71772) A. lamarcki, A. undata, Undaria crassa (71776) A. undata (71728) Undaria agaricites (71739 71740 71741 71743 71744 71747 71748 71759 71766 71773 73621 73625) Undaria agaricites, A. grahamae (71745 71750 71752 71753) Undaria agaricites, A. grahamae, A. lamarcki (71730 71742 71761 71765) Undaria agaricites, A. grahamae, A. lamarcki, A. undata (71722 71723 71725 71729 71731 71735 71736 71754 71755 71756 71758 71760 71762 71763 71764 71768 71774) Undaria agaricites, A. grahamae, A. lamarcki, A. undata, Undaria crassa (71720 71726 71733 71749) Undaria agaricites, A. grahamae, A. undata (71769 71770 71775) Undaria agaricites, A. lamarcki (71422 71778) Undaria agaricites, A. lamarcki, A. undata (71757 71771) Undaria agaricites, A. lamarcki, Undaria crassa (73617) Undaria agaricites, A. undata (71767) Undaria agaricites, Undaria crassa (71721 71777 71779) Undaria agaricites, Undaria pusilla (73623) Undaria crassa (73619 73620) Undaria crassa, Undaria pusilla (73618) Undaria sp., Undaria agaricites, A. grahamae, A. lamarcki (71737)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Jamaica Undaria agaricites, A. lamarcki, A. undata, Undaria crassa (34542)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Bahamas Undaria agaricites (73655)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Panama A. agaricites (80304 124662) A. sp. (120355) A. sp., Undaria agaricites (120197) A. sp., Undaria agaricites, A. undata, Undaria crassa (120218) Undaria agaricites (73627 73629 73633 120199 120200 120202 120274 120275 120354) Undaria agaricites, A. grahamae, A. lamarcki (73632) Undaria agaricites, Undaria crassa (73630 120201 120214 120278) Undaria agaricites, Undaria crassa, Undaria pusilla (120220) Undaria crassa (120221 120273 120277 120285 120287) Undaria pusilla (120281) Undaria sp. A, Undaria agaricites, A. undata, Undaria crassa, Undaria pusilla (120219)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Haiti A. agaricites (60881 60886 60893)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Dominican Republic A. purpurea (75418 75423) A. sp. (75419 75422)
Pleistocene - Holocene2.588 - 0.0Taiwan A. forskali (63134)
Middle Pleistocene0.781 - 0.126Barbados A. agaricites (102439 102443 102454 102458 102462 102464 102467)
Middle Pleistocene (interglacial)0.781 - 0.126Barbados A. sp. (88865)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.126 - 0.0117Belize A. sp. (88824 88826)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.126 - 0.0117Jamaica A. agaricites (80612)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.126 - 0.0117Barbados A. agaricites (102420)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.126 - 0.0117Netherlands Antilles (Curacao) A. agaricites (102671 102680 102684)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.126 - 0.0117Virgin Islands, U.S. A. sp. (119927)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.126 - 0.0117Cayman Islands (Grand Cayman) A. agaricites (103503 103504 103514 103520 103521 103522 103526 103527 103528 103532 103533 103534 103535 103724 103725 103726 103730 103732 103733) A. agaricites, A. fragilis (103513 103515 103524 103525 103729) A. fragilis (103517)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.126 - 0.0117Barbados A. agaricites (102421 102437)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.126 - 0.0117Netherlands Antilles A. agaricites (80904)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.126 - 0.0117Colombia A. agaricites (102768 102776)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.126 - 0.0117Jamaica (Saint Thomas) Undaria agaricites, Undaria crassa (82858)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.126 - 0.0117Bahamas A. agaricites (102643 102645 102647 102651)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.126 - 0.0117Netherlands Antilles (Sint Eustatius) A. agaricites (209794 209795 209796)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.126 - 0.0117USA (Florida) A. agaricites (102948 102950 102952) A. agaricites, A. purpurea (85457)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.126 - 0.0117Mexico (Quintana Roo) A. agaricites (82819)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Panama A. agaricites (165794 165795 165797)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Dominican Republic Undaria tenuifolia, Undaria agaricites (97555) Undaria tenuifolia, Undaria agaricites, A. lamarcki (97552 97554)
Holocene (interglacial)0.0117 - 0.0Australia (Queensland) Agaricia indet. (166487)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Cayman Islands A. sp. (97605)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Virgin Islands, U.S. A. agaricites (97624)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Barbados A. agaricites (148711)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Belize A. sp., A. tenuifolia (97612)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Antigua and Barbuda A. agaricites (97611)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Brazil (Bahia) A. sp. (97664 97665)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Brazil (Pernambuco) A. sp. (97706)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0USA (Florida) A. agaricites (97609) A. nobilis, A. agaricites (97606 97607 97610)