Genus Anemonia Risso, 1827

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anemonia Risso, A. 1827 [1826]. Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe Méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes-Maritimes. Paris : F.-G. Levrault Vol. 5 viii, 402 pp., 10 pls. [Date published November 1827] [288-289].

  Type species:

   Actinia sulcata Pennant, 1777 by subsequent designation.

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34)

Diagnosis

Pedal disc wide and smooth column. Marginal spherules present maybe absent in smaller individuals. Tentacles usually long, not usually covered by the upper part of the column, their longitudinal muscles ectodermal. Siphonoglyphs variable in number, not always connected with directive mesenteries. Perfect mesenteries numerous; more mesenteries at the base than at the margin. Retractor muscles diffuse. Gonads appearing from the first cycles of mesenteries onwards. Cnidom: spirocysts, basitrichs, microbasic p-mastigophores.

General References

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

History of changes