Species Anemonia sulcata Pennant, 1777

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anemonia sulcata Pennant, T 1777. British Zoology. London : Benj. White Vol. 4 136 pp. [40].

  Type data:

   Status unknown.

  Secondary source:

   Fautin, D.G. 2011. Hexacorallians of the World. http://geoportal.kgs.ku.edu/hexacoral/anemone2/index.cfm.
• Actinia cereus Ellis, J. & Solander, D. 1786. The natural history of many curious and uncommen zoophytes, collected from various parts of the globe by the late John Ellis....Systematically arranged and described by the late Daniel Solander. London : printed for Benjamine White and Son; at Horace's Head, Fleet Street; and Peter Elmsly, in the Strand. i-xii, 208 pp., 63 pls. [2].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) United Kingdom, Cornwall, 0-1 m.

  Secondary source:

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

  Type data:

   Status unknown.

  Secondary source:

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

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Diagnosis

Tentacles up to 200 in number, almost same length as column when expanded. Tentacle arrangement often irregular due to asexual reproduction by longitudinal fission. Sphincter diffuse. Mesentery arrangement irregular, more mesenteries at pedal disc than tentacles. Retractor muscles extended, diffuse, parietobasilar muscles weak. Endoderm with zooxanthellae.

General References

Carlgren, O. 1942. Actiniaria Part II. Danish Ingolf Expedition. Copenhagen 5(12): 1-92

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