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Porites divaricata


Porites divaricata Lesueur, 1821

Holotype:
MHNP no number (lost); Recent, Unspecified Locality, West Indies.

Species Morphological Description:
Calice diameter: 1.4-1.6mm; Number of pali: 5-6; Colony shape: thin branched (<10mm); Corallite distribution: even; Number of septa per corallite: 12; Calice elevation: 0.3-0.5mm; Palar ring: intermediate (30-40%); Columella development: weak; Wall reticulum: 1-2 trabeculae;


(C) AFB
Specimen Details:
Porites divaricata Lesueur, 1821
Specimen: figured USNM 72377
Image Type: nat.light
Image view: calice; East of Pulaski Buoy;
Scale:
Reference: Foster 1986, pl.15, f.6
Locality: Recent, <10m, Florida Keys, Florida

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(C) AFB
Specimen Details:
Porites divaricata Lesueur, 1821
Specimen: nontype SUI 99604
Image Type: SEM
Image view: calice; divaricata/furcata;
Scale:
Reference:
Locality: Recent, Unspecified Locality, Panama

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(C) AFB
Specimen Details:
Porites divaricata Lesueur, 1821
Specimen: nontype SUI 99604
Image Type: SEM
Image view: calice; divaricata/furcata;
Scale:
Reference:
Locality: Recent, Unspecified Locality, Panama

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(C)
Specimen Details:
Porites divaricata Lesueur, 1821
Specimen:
Image Type: light
Image view: colony;
Scale: 10mm
Reference:
Locality:

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(C) AFB
Specimen Details:
Porites divaricata Lesueur, 1821
Specimen: USNM 78996
Image Type: light
Image view: corallite;
Scale: 3.0 mm
Reference:
Locality: Recent, Blue Ground Range, Belize

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(C) AFB
Specimen Details:
Porites divaricata Lesueur, 1821
Specimen: USNM 78996
Image Type: light
Image view: colony;
Scale: 5.0 mm
Reference:
Locality: Recent, Blue Ground Range, Belize

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Distribution:
Early Pliocene - Late Pliocene
Seroe Domi Formation. St. Michiel ridges, Curacao, south Caribbean.
Late Pliocene - Early Pleistocene
Old Pera Beds. Old Pera, Bowden, Jamaica, central Caribbean.
Seroe Domi Formation. St. Michiel seacliff, Curacao, south Caribbean.
Early Pleistocene
Caloosahatchee Formation. Shell Creek, Florida, north Caribbean.
Middle Pleistocene - Late Pleistocene
Key Largo Formation. Key Largo, Florida Keys, Florida, north Caribbean.
San Andres Formation. San Andres, San Andres, central Caribbean.
Recent Recent
<10m. Discovery Bay, Jamaica, central Caribbean.