Thin Leaf Lettuce Coral Agaricia tenuifolia

Classification

Agariciidae [family]

Agaricia [genus] (7)

Agaricia [genus] (7)

Recorded on	Bonaire
	Saba Bank
	Sint Eustatius

Presence status	Indigenous (1) - Bonaire
	Indigenous (1) - Saba Bank
	Indigenous (1) - Sint Eustatius

Notes on presence status	Marine species are considered ubiquitous around the Dutch Caribbean by Macrae et al (2021), but this species has not been recorded yet on Aruba, Curaçao, St. Maarten and Saba.

Hoeksema, B.W., Moorsel, G.W.N.M. van 2016. Stony corals of St. Eustatius. In: Marine biodiversity survey of St. Eustatius, Dutch Caribbean, 2015. 32-37. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, and ANEMOON Foundation, Bennebroek.
MacRae, D.M. & De Meyer, K. 2020. Dutch Caribbean conservation species list. Using management effectiveness to strengthen species conservation in the Caribbean.
Moorsel, G.W.N.M. van, Meij, S.E.T. van der 2018. The stony coral Agaricia tenuifolia Dana, 1848 as a new gall crab host (Decapoda: Cryptochiridae). Nauplius 26: 1-4.