Species Cryptodendrum adhaesivum Klunzinger, 1877

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cryptodendrum adhaesivum Klunzinger, C.B. 1877. Die Korallthiere des rothen Meeres Erster Theil: Die Alcyonarien und Malacodermen. Berlin : Verlag der Gutmann'schen Buchhandlung 98 pp. [86].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNUB MNB 1877, Egypt, Red Sea, 0m.

  Secondary source:

   Fautin, D.G. 2011. Hexacorallians of the World. http://geoportal.kgs.ku.edu/hexacoral/anemone2/index.cfm.
• Stoichactis digitata Doumenc, D. 1973. Notes sur les actinies de Polynésie Française. Cahiers du Pacifique 17: 173-204 [175, 194-198, fig. 4; Pl. V figs. A, B].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MNHP 2038, French Polynesia, Tuamotu [Paumotu] Archipelago, Gambier Islands, 2-5 m [23°08'S, 134°57'E]; MNHP 2540, French Polynesia, Marquesas Islands, 2-5 m [9°05'S,139°53'W].

  Secondary source:

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

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific from Red Sea to French Polynesia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Norfolk Island Province (21), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

Diagnosis

Verrucae on upper column. Oral disc not lobed, densely covered with many short tentacles. Some tentacles branched, some spheroidal; each sort occupying its own field (i.e. not intermixed). Sphincter weak, circumscribed. Mesenteries numerous, more at margin than base, at least all stronger ones except directives fertile. All mesenteries with filaments, except directives; sexes separate.

 

General References

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

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