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Where does the Ribbon Coral live?

Agaricia tenuifolia has 17,687 records in 23 countries and territories, from 1887 to 2026. Most records come from Colombia.

Ribbon Coral
Ribbon Coral — Moorsel, Godfried W.N.M. van and Meij, Sancia E.T. van der. The stony coral Agaricia tenuifolia Dana, 1848 as a new gall crab host (Decapoda: Cryptochiridae). Nauplius [online]. 2018, v. 26, n. 00 [Accessed 17 July 2021] , e2018002 / CC BY 4.0 · source
AnimaliaCnidariaAnthozoaScleractiniaAgariciidaeAgaricia

When it is recorded

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Peak month: June. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Colombia 8,986
US Virgin Islands 4,777
Panama 1,870
Puerto Rico 726
Mexico 578
Belize 543
Honduras 58
Cuba 35
Bahamas 25
Jamaica 23
Costa Rica 15
Dominican Republic 13
Venezuela 11
Turks and Caicos Islands 7
Australia 6
Nicaragua 4
Martinique 3
ZZ 2
Bonaire 1
Curaçao 1
Haiti 1
Cayman Islands 1
United States 1

Related animals

Others in the family Agariciidae.

lettuce coral
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low-relief lettuce coral
10,903 records
Graham's sheet coral
9,116 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.