Species Calliactis polypus (Forsskål, 1775)
Type data:
Syntype(s) Red Sea, Al Qunfidhah [Ghomfodam] [19°07'N, 41°04'E].- Actinia decorata Couthouy in Dana, J.D. 1846. Zoophytes. United States Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Philadelphia : Lea & Blanchard Vol. 7 740 pp. [139-140].
Type data:
Syntype(s) French Polynesia, Honden Island, Puka Puka Atoll, lagoon, 0 m [14°49'S, 138°49'W]. - Adamsia miriam Haddon, A.C. & Shackleton, A.M. 1893. Description of some new species of Actiniaria from Torres Straits. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society 8(1): 116–131 [117, 130-131].
Type data:
Holotype QLD, Torres Strait, Murray Islands, Mer [Maer] Island, 0 m [9°55'S, 144°04'E]. - Calliactis armillatas Verrill, A.E. 1928. Hawaiian shallow water Anthozoa. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 49: 3-30 [20-21].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BPBM D114, Hawaiian Islands, Laysan Island, Tanger, 0 m [25°46’N, 171°44’W]; BPBM D295, Hawaiian Islands, Laysan Island, Tanger, 0 m [25°46’N, 171°44’W]; BPBM D299, Hawaiian Islands, Laysan Island, Tanger, 0 m [25°46’N, 171°44’W].
Generic Combinations
- Calliactis polypus (Forsskål, 1775). —
Klunzinger, C.B. 1877. Die Korallthiere des rothen Meeres Erster Theil: Die Alcyonarien und Malacodermen. Berlin : Verlag der Gutmann'schen Buchhandlung 98 pp. [76] (Fautin, D.G. Hexacorallians of the World. 2011. http://geoportal.kgs.ku.edu/hexacoral/anemone2/index.cfm) - Cribrina polypus (Forsskål, 1775). —
Ehrenberg, G.G. 1834. Beitrage zur physiologischen Kenntniss der Corallenthiere im Allgemeinen und besanders des Rothen Meeres nebst, einem Versuche zur physiologischen Systematik derselben. Abhandlungen der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Berlin 1832(1): 225–380 [264-265] (Fautin, D.G. Hexacorallians of the World. 2011. http://geoportal.kgs.ku.edu/hexacoral/anemone2/index.cfm)
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Widespread Indo-Pacific: Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean; Atlantic Ocean
IMCRA
Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Marine (host(s): [PAGURIDAE] Hermit crab).
Extra Ecological Information
Attached to shell of hermit crab; may be more than one sea anemone per shell
Diagnosis
Pedal disc wide, often embracing shells inhabited by pagurid hermit crabs. Pedal disc follows contour of shell to 50 mm diameter. Column 7-14 mm long, maroon, divided into very short smooth scapulus and thicker-walled scapus; small tubercles near distal end; so thin near limbus that mesenterial insertions visible. Perforate cinclides on prominent white tubercles arranged in a single row above base. Acontia pink, orange, or salmon colour. Thin cuticle present, especially near base. Tentacles numerous, smooth, conical, inner longer than outer; occupy marginal third of oral disc, hexamerously arranged. Oral disc flat, circular, diameter 7-20 mm; central mouth with two prominent siphonoglyphs. Sphincter mostly reticular, transversely striated especially in upper part, alveolar in its most proximal part, diminishing downwards, its proximal end rather close to the endoderm, not truncate. Mesenteries hexamerously arranged, always more at oral disc margin rather than pedal disc.
General References
Carlgren, O. 1938. South African Actiniaria and Zoantharia. Kungliga Svenska Ventenskapsakademiens Handlingar 17: 1-148
Carlgren, O. 1950. Actiniaria and Corallimorpharia. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 5(7): 427-457
Cutress, C.E. 1977. Corallimorpharia, Actiniaria, Ceriantharia. pp. 130-147 in Devaney, D.M. & Eldredge, L.G. (Eds). Reef and Shore Fauna of Hawaii. Honolulu : Bishop Museum Press.
den Hartog, J.C. 1997. The sea anemone fauna of Indonesian coral reefs. pp. 351-370 in Tomascik, T., Mah, A.J., Nontji, A. & Moosa, M.K. (Eds). The Ecology of the Indonesian Seas, Part 1. Singapore : Periplus Editions Vol. 7.
England, K.W. 1971. Actiniaria from Mururoa Atoll Tuamotu, Polynesia (Hormathiidae; Calliactis polypus Sagartiidae: Verrillactis n. gen. paguri). Cahiers du Pacifique 15: 23-40
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
Pei, Z. 1996. Three new species of the genus Calliactis. Studia Marina Sinica 37: 177-187
Reimer, A.A. 1973. Feeding behavior in the sea anemone Calliactis polypus (Forskål, 1775). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 44A: 1289-1301
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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20-May-2023 | HEXACORALLIA Haeckel, 1896 | 20-May-2023 | MODIFIED | |
05-Aug-2022 | CNIDARIA | 26-Apr-2023 | MODIFIED | |
05-Aug-2022 | ANTHOZOA | 20-May-2023 | MODIFIED | |
05-Aug-2022 | NYNANTHEAE Carlgren, 1899 | 13-Aug-2013 | MOVED | Dr Bronwen Scott |
05-Aug-2022 | 20-May-2023 | MODIFIED | ||
05-Aug-2022 | 09-Nov-2010 | MOVED | ||
05-Aug-2022 | 09-Nov-2010 | MOVED | ||
05-Aug-2022 | 28-Jul-2010 | MODIFIED | ||
13-Jul-2010 | MODIFIED |