Species Cricophorus nutrix (Stuckey, 1909)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sagartia nutrix Stuckey, F.G. 1909. A Review of the New Zealand Actiniaria known to Science, together with a Description of Twelve New Species. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 41: 374-398 [382-383].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) New Zealand, North Island, Owhiro Bay, 0-3 m [41°19’S, 174°46’E]; New Zealand, Wellington, Island Bay, 0-3 m [41°20'S, 174°48'E].

  Secondary source:

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

 

Generic Combinations

• Cricophorus nutrix (Stuckey, 1909). —
  Carlgren, O. 1924. Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-16. XXI. Actiniaria from New Zealand and its Subantarctic Islands. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 77: 179-261 [252-258] (Fautin, D.G. Hexacorallians of the World. 2011. http://geoportal.kgs.ku.edu/hexacoral/anemone2/index.cfm)

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

New Zealand

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

Diagnosis

Wide pedal disc with thin cuticle. Column conical, smooth, no cinclides; deep brown, sometimes greenish, blue, or yellow. Oral disc iridescent bright green, but colour variable. Margin distinct. Sphincter transversally stratified, in upper part sometimes reticular. Tentacles to 96, inner more than twice as long as outer, short, fine and smooth. Mesenteries in 4-5 cycles, last cycle only in proximal part. Embryos developing in an annular invagination around the column in its proximal half.

 

General References

Carlgren, O. 1924. Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-16. XXI. Actiniaria from New Zealand and its Subantarctic Islands. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 77: 179-261

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

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	NYNANTHEAE Carlgren, 1899	13-Aug-2013	MOVED	Dr Bronwen Scott
05-Aug-2022		28-Feb-2011	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