Agariciidae
Agaricia agaricites (Linnaeus, 1758)
Agaricia agaricites (Linnaeus, 1758)
Agaricia agaricites is a small, short-lived zooxanthellate coral found across the western Atlantic that readily recruits to open reef patches.
Agaricia tenuifolia Dana, 1846
Agaricia tenuifolia Dana, 1846
Agaricia tenuifolia is a Caribbean zooxanthellate coral susceptible to bleaching that can prevent other corals from recruiting.
Pavona cactus (Forskål, 1775)
Pavona cactus (Forskål, 1775)
Pavona cactus is a zooxanthellate reef coral with vertical fronds, found in tropical Indo-Pacific shallow waters.
Pavona clavus (Dana, 1846)
Pavona clavus (Dana, 1846)
Pavona clavus is a widely distributed reef-building coral found from the western Indian Ocean to the eastern Pacific.
Pavona decussata (Dana, 1846)
Pavona decussata (Dana, 1846)
Pavona decussata is a common leafy stony coral native to reef habitats of the western and central Indo-Pacific.
Pavona duerdeni Vaughan, 1907
Pavona duerdeni Vaughan, 1907
Pavona duerdeni is an uncommon reef-building stony coral found across parts of the Indo-Pacific and Pacific.
Pavona gigantea (Verrill, 1869)
Pavona gigantea (Verrill, 1869)
Pavona gigantea is a colonial stony coral species in the genus Pavona, first described by Addison Emery Verrill in 1869.
Pavona maldivensis (Gardiner, 1905)
Pavona maldivensis (Gardiner, 1905)
Pavona maldivensis is a widely distributed zooxanthellate stony coral found across tropical and subtropical Indo-Pacific waters.
Pavona varians (Verrill, 1864)
Pavona varians (Verrill, 1864)
Pavona varians, or corrugated coral, is a hermatypic encrusting coral found across the Indian and Pacific Oceans that rapidly colonizes disturbed reef areas.
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