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Species Stichodactyla haddoni (Saville-Kent, 1893)

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Species Stichodactyla haddoni (Saville-Kent, 1893)

Generic Combinations

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Red Sea; East African coast; Japan; New Caledonia.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

Diagnosis

Oral disc to 500mm diameter, undulating; green, brown, or blue, densely covered with short tentacles (a few mm long, about 1mm diameter) although area around mouth typically tentacle-free. Tentacles sticky to touch; basal portion of tentacle of uniform diameter, upper portion bluntly pointed to slightly bulbed; single exocoelic tentacles mostly white, about 3mm diameter; endocoelic tentacles closely set in radial rows usually two tentacles across at oral end widening to five across at marginal end. Column white, yellow, or light green, widening gradually from pedal disc to a flared upper column bearing small non-adhesive verrucae. A shallow fosse may be present.

 

General References

Astalhov, D.A. 2002. Species composition of anemonefishes (Perciformes, Pomacentridae) and their host sea anemones (Cnidaria, Actiniaria) in the Khanhhoa Province (South Vietnam). Journal of Ichthyology 42: 37-50

den Hartog, J.C. 1997. Notes on the genus Amphiprion Bloch & Schneider, 1801 (Teleostei: Pomacentridae) and its host sea anemones in the Seychelles. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 71: 181-188

den Hartog, J.C. & Vennam, J. 1993. Some Actiniaria (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from the west coast of India. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 67: 601-637

Dunn, D.F. 1981. The clownfish sea anemones: Stichodactylidae (Coelenterata: Actiniaria) and other sea anemones symbiotic with Pomacentrid fishes. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 71: 1-115

Dunn, D.F. 1985. Sea anemones that harbor symbiotic pomacentrid fishes in the western Pacific. National Geographic Society Research Reports 18: 279-283

Fautin, D.G. 1988. Sea anemones (Actiniaria and Corallimorpharia) of Madang Province. Science in New Guinea 14: 22-29

Fautin, D.G. 1991. The anemonefish symbiosis: What is known and what is not. Symbiosis 10: 23-46

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

Khan, R.N., Becker, J.H.A., Crowther, A.L. & Lawn, I.D. 2003. Sea anemone host selection by the symbiotic saddled cleaner shrimp Periclimenes holthuisi. Marine and Freshwater Research 54: 653-656

Khan, R.N., Becker, J.H.A., Crowther, A.L. & Lawn, I.D. 2004. Spatial distribution of symbiotic shrimps (Periclimenes holthuisi, P. brevicarpalis, Thor amboinensis) on the sea anemone Stichodactyla haddoni. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 84: 201-203

Paulay, G., Puglisi, M.P. & Starmer, J.A. 2003. The marine biodiversity of Guam and the Marianas. Micronesica 35-36: 138-155

Richardson, D.L., Harriott, V.J. & Harrison, P.L. 1997. Distribution and abundance of giant sea anemones (Actiniaria) in subtropical eastern Australian waters. Marine and Freshwater Research 48: 59-66

Uchida, H. & Soyama, I. 2001. Sea Anemones in Japanese Waters. Japan : TBS 157 pp.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
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