Agaricia grahamae Wells, 1973.

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Photograph: Scale bar is approx. 0.8 cm. Image is of SUI 63952 (Discovery Bay, Jamaica, collected at 40 m. Recent).

Synonyms: None.

Morphologic Description:

Colony Form: meandroid
Colony Shape: plates; flat or gently curved
Colline Characteristics: low
Series Length: long
Budding Type: intramural
Corallite Diameter: 2.0-2.9 mm
Septa Per Corallite: 18-28
Lobes: none
Columella Structure: trabecular and discontinuous
Columella Development: prominent
Wall Structure: synapticulothecal

Holotype: USNM 53487 (Discovery Bay, Jamaica. Recent).

Distribution:

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

Last updated on February 15, 1997-afb.

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