Species Actinia australiensis Carlgren, 1950

Museums

Regional Maps

• Actinia australiensis Carlgren, O. 1950. Corallimorpharia, Actiniaria and Zoantharia from New South Wales and South Queensland. Arkiv för Zoologi 1: 131-146 [132-133, fig. 1].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMLU 324 Kat 1, NSW, Sydney district; ZMLU 324 Kat 2, NSW, along coast.

  Secondary source:

   Fautin, D.G. 2011. Hexacorallians of the World. http://geoportal.kgs.ku.edu/hexacoral/anemone2/index.cfm.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Diagnosis

Column red, to 30 mm long; may be slightly corrugated longitudinally. Oral disc flat, about half as broad as column length in extension; red with white flecks near base of tentacles. Sphincter diffuse. Approximately 96 pointed tentacles, red with bluish- purple tips, hexamerously arranged; inner held upward, about half as long as oral disc diameter, outer shorter, extended horizontally. Fosse deep in life, may appear shallow in preserved specimens; up to 48 whitish marginal spherules. Actinopharynx usually with two siphonoglyphs, in some specimens only one. All or almost all mesenteries are perfect and fertile, apart from the directives. Retractors band-like, rather flat. Parietobasilar muscles very strong forming deep fold. Slightly more mesenteries at base than tentacles. Pedal disc at least as broad as oral disc.

General References

Fautin, D.G. 2011. Hexacorallians of the World. http://geoportal.kgs.ku.edu/hexacoral/anemone2/index.cfm

Fautin, D.G., Crowther, A.L. & Wallace, C.C. 2008. Sea anemones (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actiniaria) of Moreton Bay. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 54(1): 35-64

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