Abstract
The West Flower Garden Bank is a calcareous prominence on the outer edge of the Texas-Louisiana continental shelf, rising to within 20 m of the sea surface. An actively growing fauna of West Indian scleractinian corals caps the top 30 m of the bank, and represents the northernmost known flourishing coral reef in the Gulf of Mexico. The bank supports a foraminiferal fauna related to that present on the West Indian and Florida-Bahamian reefs. Within the sediments most species and individuals are attached to coarse sedimentary particles, rather than being free tests. The largest populations are attached to large scleractinian colonies in the upper part of the bank and to algal nodules that occur at a depth of 46-82 m. End_of_Article - Last_Page 1904------------
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