The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·93523SpeciesAnimalia1,645 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Cnidarians
  3. ›Sea Anemones and Corals
  4. ›Hexacorallians
  5. ›Stony Corals
  6. ›Agariciidae
  7. ›Agaricia
Lettuce Coral
Plate 1 of 6. no rights reserved, uploaded by Jean-Paul Boerekamps · via iNaturalist
IUCN VU · Vulnerable

Lettuce Coral

Agaricia agaricites

Agaricia agaricites, commonly known as lettuce coral or tan lettuce-leaf coral, is a species of colonial stony corals in the family Agariciidae. This coral is found in shallow waters in the tropical western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. It is a common species and the IUCN has assessed its status as being of "least concern".

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Agaricia agaricites in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 93523.