Agelas clathrodes (Schmidt, 1870)

Fig. 4

Diagnostic features.

Massive, flabellate, orange reddish in color. The surface is rugose, irregularly riddled by round (1-10 mm wide) and key-holed (1-4 cm long) oscula.

Similar species.

Agelas citrina flabellate specimens are similar but lack key holed oscula and usually have a paler pinkish or yellowish color.

Distribution and abundance.

Common in shallow and mesophotic reefs in North and South Carolina, eastern Florida, throughout the Caribbean, the Guyana shelf, and Brazil.

Ecology.

Coral reefs, coral communities, and coralline algae reefs in FGBNMS region.

Identification.

MCD, MFN.

References.

Díaz et al. 2019; Parra-Velandia et al. 2014