Species Boloceroides mcmurrichi (Kwietniewski, 1898)
- Bolocera mcmurrichi Kwietniewski, C.R. 1898. Actiniaria von Ambon und Thursday Island. pp. 385-430 in Semon, R. (ed.). Zoologische Forschungsreisen in Australien und dem Malayischen Archipel von Richard Semon. Jena : Gustav Fischer Vol. 5: Systematik, tiergeographie, anatomie wirbelloser tiere. [387, 389, 394-395; Plate XXV, Fig 10-11].
Type data:
Syntype(s) PMJ 74, Indonesia, Molucca Islands, Ambon [Amboina] [3°39'S, 128°09'E]; ZMLU, Indonesia, Molucca Islands, Ambon [Amboina] [3°39'S, 128°09'E]. - Boloceroides hermaphroditica Carlgren, O. 1900. Ostafrikanische Actinien. Gesammelt von Herrn Dr. F. Stuhlmann 1888 und 1889. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 17: 21–144 [38-39].
Type data:
Syntype(s) 1327, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Bueni Reef [6°02'S, 39°12'E]. - Nectothela lilae Verrill, A.E. 1928. Hawaiian shallow water Anthozoa. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 49: 3-30 [14].
Type data:
Holotype AMNH 1476, USA, Hawaiian Islands, Oahu, Malaekahana [21°40’N, 157°56’W].
Paratype(s) AMNH 1477, USA, Hawaiian Islands, Oahu [21°27’N, 157°57’W]; BPBM D108, USA, Hawaiian Islands, Oahu [21°27’N, 157°57’W].
Generic Combinations
- Boloceroides mcmurrichi (Kwietniewski, 1898). —
Carlgren, O. 1899. Uber abschnurbare Tentakel bei den Actiniarien. Zoologischer Anzeiger 22: 39-44 [43–44]
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Red Sea; Eastern Africa; Singapore; Indonesia; Papua New Guinea; French Polynesia; Hawai’i.
IMCRA
Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)
Ecological Descriptors
Low intertidal, mangrove, marine, mud bottom–marine, sand bottom marine, seagrass, shallow subtidal.
Diagnosis
Pedal disc weakly adherent, with limbus. Column smooth, thin-walled, translucent, to 10 mm long. Tentacles numerous, up to 20 but as few as 12, inner longer than outer, length up to 5 times height of column, pointed; transparent with or without white or cream transverse stripes. Actinopharynx with up to two siphonoglyphs, but siphonoglyphs may be absent; when present, directive mesenteries are connect. Mesenteries irregularly arranged in up to 4 cycles; first cycle perfect, cycles 2-4 imperfect; cycles 1-2 fertile, cycles 3-4 sterile. More mesenteries distally than proximally.
General References
Carlgren, O. 1924. On Boloceroides, Bunodeopsis and their supposed allied genera. Arkiv för Zoologi 17A(1): 1-20
Doumenc, D. 1973. Notes sur les actinies de Polynésie Française. Cahiers du Pacifique 17: 173-204
England, K.W. 1992. Actiniaria (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from Hong Kong with additional data on similar species from Aden, Bahrain and Singapore. pp. 49-95 in Morton, B. (ed.). The marine fauna and flora of Hong Kong and southern China 3. Introduction, taxonomy and ecology. Proceedings of the Fourth International Marine Biological Workshop, 11-29 April 1989. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press Vol. 1 526 pp.
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
Lawn, I.D. & Ross, R.M. 1982. The behavioural physiology of the swimming sea anemone Boloceroides mcmurrichi. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 216: 315-334
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 05-Aug-2022 | NYNANTHEAE Carlgren, 1899 | 13-Aug-2013 | MOVED | Dr Bronwen Scott |
| 05-Aug-2022 | 17-Nov-2010 | MODIFIED | ||
| 05-Aug-2022 | 09-Nov-2010 | MOVED | ||
| 05-Aug-2022 | 28-Jul-2010 | MODIFIED | ||
| 13-Jul-2010 | MODIFIED |