Agaricia fragilis

Dana, 1846




Holotype: MCZ 610; Recent; unspecified, West Indies.

Morphologic Description:
Colony Form: meandroid
Colony Shape: plates or bowls
Colline Characteristics: low, rounded, often contorted
Series Length: long
Budding Type: mostly intramural
Corallite Diameter: 1.9-2.5 mm
Septa Per Corallite: 17-36
Lobes: none
Columella Structure: trabecular and discontinous
Columella Development: low style or papillae
Wall Structure: synapticulothecal
Synonyms: none

(C) AFB.

Specimen details:

Image Description: Holotype USNM 53484
Image view: colony.

Locality: DBL 301: more information required.
Remarks: A. fragilis contracta.


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(C) AFB.

Specimen details:

Image Description: Holotype USNM 53484
Image view: calice.

Locality: DBL 301: more information required.
Remarks: A. fragilis contracta.


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(C) AFB.

Specimen details:

Image Description: Holotype USNM 53484
Image view: calice.

Locality: DBL 301: more information required.
Remarks: A. fragilis contracta.


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(C) .

Specimen details:

Image Description: holotype MCZ 610
Image view: colony.

Locality: Recent_car: more information required.



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Distribution:
Plio-Pleistocene: Moin Formation, Costa Rica.
Recent: Caribbean.





Last updated on 29 June 2004 - has