Genus Anthopleura Duchassaing De Fombressin & Michelotti, 1860

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anthopleura Duchassaing De Fombressin, P. & Michelotti, J. 1860. Mémoire sur les coralliaires des Antilles. Turin : Imprimerie Royale pp. 1–89, X pls. [reprint from the Memorie dell'Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, 1861, Ser. 2, vol. 19, pp. 279–365] [48].

  Type species:

   Anthopleura krebsi Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Diagnosis

Actiniidae with well-developed pedal disc. Column with adhesive verrucae arranged in more or less distinct longitudinal rows, especially in its upper part. Marginal spherules present. Tentacles simple, hexamerously or irregularly arranged, their longitudinal muscles ectodermal or meso-ectodermal. Numerous perfect mesenteries, all the stronger ones fertile. Mesenteries grow from base. Retractors of the stronger mesenteries diffuse, sometimes restricted. Younger mesenteries grow from the basal disc upwards. Cnidom: spirocysts, atrichs, 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