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Agaricia Lamarck, 1801

204464  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204464)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Anthozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Hexacorallia (Class)
  6. Scleractinia (Order)
  7. Refertina (Suborder)
  8. Agariciidae (Family)
  9. Agaricia (Genus)
accepted
Genus
Agaricia (Mycedia) Dana, 1846 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Agaricia (Undaria) Oken, 1815 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Mycedia Dana, 1846 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Undaria Oken, 1815 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (invalid name)

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  1. Species Agaricia agaricites (Linnaeus, 1758)
  2. Species Agaricia fragilis Dana, 1846
  3. Species Agaricia grahamae Wells, 1973
  4. Species Agaricia humilis Verrill, 1901
  5. Species Agaricia lamarcki Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851
  6. Species Agaricia tenuifolia Dana, 1846
  7. Species Agaricia undata (Ellis & Solander, 1786)
  8. Subgenus Agaricia (Mycedia) Dana, 1846 accepted as Agaricia Lamarck, 1801 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
    1. Species Agaricia (Mycedia) agaricites (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Agaricia agaricites (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
    2. Species Agaricia (Mycedia) cristata (Lamarck, 1816) accepted as Agaricia agaricites (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
    3. Species Agaricia (Mycedia) cucullata (Ellis & Solander, 1786) accepted as Helioseris cucullata (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
    4. Species Agaricia (Mycedia) fragilis Dana, 1846 accepted as Agaricia fragilis Dana, 1846 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
    5. Species Agaricia (Mycedia) gibbosa Dana, 1846 accepted as Agaricia agaricites (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
    6. Species Agaricia (Mycedia) purpurea Dana, 1846 accepted as Agaricia agaricites (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  9. Subgenus Agaricia (Undaria) Oken, 1815 accepted as Agaricia Lamarck, 1801 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
    1. Species Agaricia (Undaria) agaricites (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Agaricia agaricites (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
    2. Species Agaricia (Undaria) levicollis Dana, 1846 accepted as Pachyseris speciosa (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
    3. Species Agaricia (Undaria) planulata Dana, 1846 accepted as Gardineroseris planulata (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
    4. Species Agaricia (Undaria) rugosa Lamarck, 1801 accepted as Pachyseris rugosa (Lamarck, 1801) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
    5. Species Agaricia (Undaria) speciosa Dana, 1846 accepted as Pachyseris speciosa (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
    6. Species Agaricia (Undaria) undata (Ellis & Solander, 1786) accepted as Agaricia undata (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  10. Species Agaricia ampliata (Ellis & Solander, 1786) accepted as Merulina ampliata (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  11. Species Agaricia anguillensis Vaughan, 1919 accepted as Agaricia agaricites (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  12. Species Agaricia anthrophylla Horn, 1861 accepted as Agaricia agaricites (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  13. Species Agaricia boletiformis (Esper, 1791) accepted as Pavona cactus (Forskål, 1775) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  14. Species Agaricia cailleti (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) accepted as Leptoseris cailleti (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  15. Species Agaricia cailletti (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) accepted as Leptoseris cailleti (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  16. Species Agaricia clavus (Dana, 1846) accepted as Pavona clavus (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  17. Species Agaricia crassa Verrill, 1901 accepted as Agaricia agaricites (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  18. Species Agaricia crispa Ehrenberg, 1834 accepted as Leptoseris papyracea (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  19. Species Agaricia cristata (Lamarck, 1816) accepted as Agaricia agaricites (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  20. Species Agaricia cucullata (Ellis & Solander, 1786) accepted as Helioseris cucullata (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  21. Species Agaricia danai Milne Edwards, 1860 accepted as Agaricia agaricites (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  22. Species Agaricia diffluens (Lamarck, 1816) accepted as Pavona diffluens (Lamarck, 1816) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  23. Species Agaricia dominicensis Vaughan, 1919 accepted as Agaricia agaricites (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  24. Species Agaricia elephantotus (Pallas, 1766) accepted as Mycedium elephantotus (Pallas, 1766) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  25. Species Agaricia explanata Lamouroux, 1824 accepted as Pavona explanulata (Lamarck, 1816) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  26. Species Agaricia explanulata Lamarck, 1816 accepted as Pavona explanulata (Lamarck, 1816) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
  27. Species Agaricia flabellina Lamouroux, 1821 accepted as Merulina ampliata (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  28. Species Agaricia fossata (Dana, 1846) accepted as Psammocora columna Dana, 1846 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  29. Species Agaricia gibbosa Dana, 1846 accepted as Agaricia agaricites (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  30. Species Agaricia lessoni (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860) accepted as Agaricia agaricites (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  31. Species Agaricia levicollis Dana, 1846 accepted as Pachyseris speciosa (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  32. Species Agaricia lima Lamarck, 1816 accepted as Montipora foliosa (Pallas, 1766) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  33. Species Agaricia minikoiensis (Gardiner, 1905) accepted as Leptoseris mycetoseroides Wells, 1954 (unaccepted > misapplication)
  34. Species Agaricia nobilis Verrill, 1901 accepted as Helioseris cucullata (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  35. Species Agaricia papillosa Lamarck, 1816 accepted as Montipora verrucosa (Lamarck, 1816) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  36. Species Agaricia planula Dana, 1846 accepted as Gardineroseris planulata (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
  37. Species Agaricia planulata Dana, 1846 accepted as Gardineroseris planulata (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
  38. Species Agaricia ponderosa Gardiner, 1905 accepted as Gardineroseris planulata (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  39. Species Agaricia purpurea Le Sueur, 1820 accepted as Agaricia agaricites (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  40. Species Agaricia rugosa Lamarck, 1801 accepted as Pachyseris rugosa (Lamarck, 1801) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
  41. Species Agaricia speciosa Dana, 1846 accepted as Pachyseris speciosa (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  42. Species Agaricia talpa (Lamarck, 1816) accepted as Polyphyllia talpina (Lamarck, 1801) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  43. Species Agaricia vesparium (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860) accepted as Agaricia agaricites (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  44. Species Agaricia frondosa Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
  45. Species Agaricia radiata Risso, 1827 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
  46. Species Agaricia regularis Quelch, 1886 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
  47. Species Agaricia sanctijohannis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Lamarck, J. B. (1801). Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. <em>Published by the author and Deterville, Paris.</em> : viii + 432 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14117719 [details] OpenAccess publication
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Agaricia Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204464 on 2025-05-01
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1997-02-03 14:17:27Z
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Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-07-18 15:57:33Z
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Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-09-04 10:51:58Z
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Martinez, Olga
2014-04-11 14:00:53Z
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Hoeksema, Bert
2018-08-19 15:47:43Z
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Hoeksema, Bert
2022-05-21 06:40:29Z
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Hoeksema, Bert

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Nomenclature

original description Lamarck, J. B. (1801). Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. <em>Published by the author and Deterville, Paris.</em> : viii + 432 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14117719 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Undaria Oken, 1815) Oken, L. (1815-1816). Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte. Dritter Theil: Zoologie. <em>Erste Abtheilung: Fleischlose Thiere,Leipzig: C.H. Reclam & Jena: A. Schmid, [book (3rd vol part one, of 3 vols, including plates atlas of T.1, 1813].</em> xxviii + 842 pp. + xviii, 40 pls. L [copepods 180-184, 357-359, 4 plates]., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.166403 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Agaricia (Mycedia) Dana, 1846) Dana, J.D. (1846-1849). Zoophytes. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842. <em>Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia.</em> 7: 1-740, 61 pls. (1846: 1-120, 709-720; 1848: 121-708, 721-740; 1849: atlas pls. 1-61)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18989497, http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/usexex/navigation/ScientificText/USExEx19_08select.cfm [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [details] 

Other

additional source Guzman, H.M., 1998. Diversity of stony, soft and black corals (Anthozoa: Scleractinia, Gorgonacea, Antipatharia; Hydrozoa: Milleporina) at Cayos Cochinos, Bay Islands, Honduras. Rev. Biol. Trop. 46 Suppl. 4: 75-80.
page(s): 77 [details] 

additional source Steiner, S.C.C., 2003. Stony corals and reefs of Dominica. Atoll Res. Bull. : 497-508.
page(s): 5, 7 [details] 

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details] 

additional source Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia.</em> [details] 

additional source Duncan PM (1884) A revision of the families and genera of the sclerodermic Zoantharia, Ed. & H., or Madreporaria (M. Rugosa excepted). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 18: 1-204. [details] 

additional source Durham JW, Barnard JL (1952) Stony corals of the Eastern Pacific collected by the Velero III and Velero IV. Allan Hancock Pacific Expedition 16: 1-110, pls. 1-16.
page(s): 10, 31, Plate 2, fig. 9 [details] 

additional source Chevalier J-P. (1961). Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale. <em>Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France, Nouvelle Série.</em> 40(93): 1-562, pls. 1-26. [details] 

additional source Kitahara, M.V., J. Stolarski, S.D. Cairns, F. Benzoni, J.L. Stake & D.J. Miller. (2012). The first modern solitary Agariciidae (Anthozoa, Scleractinia) revealed by molecular and microstructural analysis. <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 26 (3): 303-315., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/is11053 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Durham JW. (1962). Corals from the Galapagos and Cocos Islands. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series.</em> 32 (2): 41-56.
page(s): 45 [details] 

additional source den Hartog, J. C. (1980). Caribbean Shallow Water Corallimorpharia. Zoologische Verhandelingen, (176): 83 pp.
page(s): 68 [details] 

additional source Reed, J. K. (1985). Deepest distribution of Atlantic hermatypic corals discovered in the Bahamas. Proceedings of the Fifth International Coral Reef Congress, 6, 249-254
page(s): 249, 251-252 [details] 

additional source Shenkar, N.; Fine, M.; Loya, Y. (2005). Size matters: bleaching dynamics of the coral Oculina patagonica. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 294, 181-188
page(s): 182 [details] 

additional source Lasker, H. R. (1983). Vegetative reproduction in the octocoral Briareum asbestinum (Pallas). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 72, 157-169
page(s): 160, 161, 162 [details] 

additional source Medina, M.; Collins, A. G.; Takaoka, T. L.; Kuehl, J. V.; Boore, J. L. (2006). Naked corals: skeleton loss in Scleractinia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 103(24): 9096-9100
page(s): 9097 [details] 

additional source Reed, J. K.; Pomponi, S. A.; Weaver, D. C.; Paull, C. K.; Wright, A. E. (2005). Deep-water sinkholes and bioherms of south Florida and the Pourtalès Terrace - habitat and fauna. Bulletin of Marine Science, 77(2): 267-296
page(s): 270 [details] 

additional source Severance, E. G.; Karl, S. A. (2006). Contrasting population genetic structures of sympatric, mass-spawning Caribbean corals. Marine Biology, 150, 57-68
page(s): 58 [details] 

additional source Dunn, D. F. (1982). Cnidaria. McGraw-Hill Book Company. New York and other cities., volume 1, pp. 669-706
page(s): 703 [details] 

 
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LanguageName 
English sheet coralscroll coralplate corallettuce coralslettuce coralleaf coral  [details]
German Salatblattkorallen  [details]
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Agaricia) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Undaria) (from synonym Undaria Oken, 1815)
To Genbank 
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ COE 92556 whole colony top view) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ COE 92559 whole colony top view) 
To ITIS
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To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ COE 92556 whole colony top view)
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To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ COE 92559 whole colony top view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ COE 92559 whole colony top view)
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