Genus Calliactis Verrill, 1869

Museums

Regional Maps

• Calliactis 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 [481].

  Type species:

   Actinia decorata Dana, 1849 by original designation.
• Adamsia Forbes, E. 1840. On the British Actiniadae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5: 180-184 [180].

  Type species:

   Actinia maculata Adams, 1800 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Gusmão, L.C., Rodríguez, E. & Daly, M. 2019. Description of Calliactis tigris sp. nov.: reconciling taxonomy and phylogeny in hermit-crab symbiotic anemones (Cnidaria: Actiniaria: Hormathiidae). Organisms, Diversity and Evolution 19: 567–583

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Diagnosis

Hormathiidae with well developed base. Column smooth, not differentiated or only slightly differentiated into scapus (often with a weak cuticle) and scapulus, often thick, sometimes with numerous ectodermal invaginations, which do not pierce the wall. Cinclides present in the proximal part of the column. Tentacles rather short, conical, more numerous than the mesenteries at the base, their longitudinal muscles ectodermal. Radial muscles of oral disc more or less embedded in the mesogloea. Two broad siphonoglyphs. Perfect mesenteries all sterile; two pairs of directives. Retractors of mesenteries fairly weak, diffuse. Parietobasilar and basilar muscles weak or rather well developed. Marginal sphincter muscle strong. Six pairs of complete and sterile mesenteries. Often commensal with hermit crabs. Cnidom: spirocysts, basitrichs, microbasic p-mastigophores.

General References

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

History of changes