Actinia
| Actinia | |
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| Actinia equina | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Hexacorallia |
| Order: | Actiniaria |
| Family: | Actiniidae |
| Genus: | Actinia Linnaeus, 1767 [1] |
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Actinia is a genus of sea anemones in the family Actiniidae. Actinia display a rare form of heteromorphosis in which a cut inflicted on a specimen can develop into a second mouth.[2]
Species[]
The following species are listed in the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS):[3]
- Risso, 1826
- Gay, 1854
- Ellis, 1768
- Carlgren, 1950
- Actinia bermudensis (McMurrich, 1889)
- Müller, 1776
- Gay, 1854
- Actinia cari Delle Chiaje, 1822
- Brandt, 1835
- Gay, 1854
- Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1834
- Drayton in Dana, 1846
- (Hertwig, 1888)
- Lesson, 1830
- Schama, Mitchell & Solé-Cava, 2011
- Beadlet anemone (Actinia equina (Linnaeus, 1758))
- Brandt, 1835
- Müller, 1789
- Actinia fragacea Tugwell, 1856, Strawberry anemone
- Moseley, 1877
- Drayton in Dana, 1846
- Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1834
- Drayton in Dana, 1846
- Watzl, 1922
- Müller, 1789
- Pax, 1914
- Brandt, 1835
- Quoy & Gaimard, 1833
- Actinia mediterranea Schmidt, 1971
- Brandt, 1835
- Le Sueur, 1817
- den Hartog & Ocaña, 2003
- Stimpson, 1853
- Gay, 1854
- Quoy & Gaimard, 1833
- Gosse, 1860
- Gay, 1854
- Swartz, 1788
- Bosc, 1802
- Actinia rosea Risso, 1826
- Ehrenberg, 1834
- Holdsworth, 1855
- Actinia rufa Müller, 1776
- Monteiro, Sole-Cava & Thorpe, 1997
- Templeton, 1841
- Ehrenberg, 1834
- Andres, 1883
- Actinia striata Quoy & Gaimard, 1833
- Actinia striata Rizzi, 1907
- Quoy & Gaimard, 1833
- Drayton in Dana, 1846
- Gay, 1854
- Actinia tenebrosa Farquhar, 1898
- Milne Edwards, 1857
- Verrill, 1868
- Quoy & Gaimard, 1833
- Müller, 1776
- Müller, 1806
- Risso, 1826
- Müller, 1776
- Rathke, 1836
Actinia equina
References[]
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- ^ Actinia Linnaeus, 1767 World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2011-08-31.
- ^ Yew. A. Filipchenko – Experimental Zoology; Ripol Klassik 2013; ISBN 5458477898, ISBN 9785458477895, pp. 209, 221–223, 344.
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Actinia Linnaeus, 1767". marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2018-04-04.
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- Hexacorallia genera
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