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Agaricia tenuifolia Dana, 1846
Thin leaf lettuce coral| Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050 |
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS
Hexacorallia | Scleractinia | Agariciidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology
Reef-associated; depth range 0 - 15 m (Ref. 87091). Tropical; 24°N - 8°N, 92°W - 58°W (Ref. 847)
Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions
Western Central Atlantic: Caribbean Sea.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Short description Morphology
Colonies form a complex of thin upright bifacial fronds which have thin margins. They are usually contorted, elongate, and divide irregularly. Corallites are in valleys which is generally concentric and les than 50 millimeters long. Brown, greenish or rust in color, sometimes with pale margins of septo-costae and sometimes with orange tentacles.
Agaricia tenuifolia has been observed to a maximum depth of 15 m, based on personal communication with our expert, Charlie Veron.
Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Members of the class Anthozoa are either gonochoric or hermaphroditic. Mature gametes are shed into the coelenteron and spawned through the mouth. Life cycle: The zygote develops into a planktonic planula larva. Metamorphosis begins with early morphogenesis of tentacles, septa and pharynx before larval settlement on the aboral end.
Main reference
References | Coordinator | Collaborators
Collin, R., M.C. Díaz, J. Norenburg, R.M. Rocha, J.A. Sánchez, M. Schulze, A. Schwartz and A. Valdés. 2005. (Ref. 415)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)
Critically Endangered (CR) (A3c); Date assessed: 01 June 2021
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Appendix II: International trade monitored
CMS (Ref. 116361)
Not Evaluated
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BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record
Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature
(Ref. 115969): 6.3 - 16.7, mean 10.3 (based on 90 cells).
Price category
(Ref. 80766):
Unknown.