Hermatypic c orals were c ollected in deep water with the JOHNSON-SEA -LINK submersibles on thewestern and southern margins of the Little Bahama Bank ( LBB), northern Grand Bahama Bank (GBB) , and SanSalvador Island, Bahamas. The deepest distribution of hermatypic corals known in the Atlantic Ocean wasfound at San Salvador. Agaricia grahamae was collected from a firm attachment on the wall at 115m(observed to 119m), and Montastrea cavernosa from 113m. When compared with the other collection sites,maximum depth of coral growths was shallowest off western LBB (A. grahamae - 76m, M. cavernosa -6 1m,Madracis decactis -75m ) and northern GBB ( Agaricia sp . - 76m) , and was intermediate off southern LBB (M.decactis - 98m, M. cavernosa - 93m, A. grahamae -91m).
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Hermatypic c orals were c ollected in deep water with the JOHNSON-SEA -LINK submersibles on thewestern and southern margins of the Little Bahama Bank ( LBB), northern Grand Bahama Bank (GBB) , and SanSalvador Island, Bahamas. The deepest distribution of hermatypic corals known in the Atlantic Ocean wasfound at San Salvador. Agaricia grahamae was collected from a firm attachment on the wall at 115m(observed to 119m), and Montastrea cavernosa from 113m. When compared with the other collection sites,maximum depth of coral growths was shallowest off western LBB (A. grahamae - 76m, M. cavernosa -6 1m,Madracis decactis -75m ) and northern GBB ( Agaricia sp . - 76m) , and was intermediate off southern LBB (M.decactis - 98m, M. cavernosa - 93m, A. grahamae -91m).
Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution 448
This manuscript is an author version with the final publication
available and may be cited as: Reed, J. K. (1985). Deepest distribution of Atlantic hermatypic corals
discovered in the Bahamas. In C. Gabrie & M. Harmelin (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth International
Coral Reef Congress. Tahiti, 27 May -1 June 1985. Vol. 6 (pp. 249-254). Moorea, French Polynesia:
Antenne Museum-Ephe.
available and may be cited as: Reed, J. K. (1985). Deepest distribution of Atlantic hermatypic corals
discovered in the Bahamas. In C. Gabrie & M. Harmelin (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth International
Coral Reef Congress. Tahiti, 27 May -1 June 1985. Vol. 6 (pp. 249-254). Moorea, French Polynesia:
Antenne Museum-Ephe.
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1985
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Deepest distribution of Atlantic hermatypic corals discovered in the Bahamas
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1985
Antenne Museum-Ephe
Moorea, French Polynesia
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Moorea, French Polynesia
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Deepest distribution of Atlantic hermatypic corals discovered in the Bahamas
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Deepest distribution of Atlantic hermatypic corals discovered in the Bahamas