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Species Verrillactis paguri (Verrill, 1870)

Generic Combinations

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific: Maldives, Taiwan Straits, Korea, Marshall Islands, French Polynesia; new Australian record (C.C. Wallace, A.L. Crowther & D.G. Fautin, unpublished data)


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

Diagnosis

Entire body white. Column height 3 mm. Marginal sphincter muscle almost completely fills the mesogloea, tapers away from ectodermal side proximally. Pedal disc 20mm x 18mm. Tentacles conical, smooth, inner longer and thicker than the outer; no catch tentacles observed on specimens from Moreton Bay, Queensland.

 

General References

Carlgren, O. 1949. A survey of the Ptychodactiaria, Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria. Kungliga Svenska Ventenskapsakademiens Handlingar 1: 1–121

Cha, H-R & Song, J-I. 2001. Taxonomy of two subtribes, Mesomyaria and Acontiaria (Anthozoa, Actiniaria) in Korea. Korean Journal of Systematic Zoology 17(1): 91-113

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

England, K.W. 1987. Certain Actiniaria (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from the Red Sea and tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 53: 205-292

McMurrich, J.P. 1903. Note on the Sea Anemone, Sagartia paguri Verrill. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 26: 427-428

Song, J-I. 1992. Systematic study on Anthozoa from the Korea Strait in Korea: Subclasses Zoantharia and Ceriantipatharia. Korean Journal of Systematic Zoology 8: 259-278

Song, J-I. 2000. Cnidaria 2: Anthozoa. Seoul : Korea Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology Vol. 5 332 pp.

Song, J-I. & Lee, I.S. 1998. Fauna of the anthozoans from adjacent waters of Geojedo Island in Korea. Korean Journal of Systematic Zoology 14(3): 229-242

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

Verrill, A.E. 1869. Review of the corals and polyps of the west coast of America. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 1(6): 377-558

 

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
04-Jan-2011 ADDED