Coral anemones
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California coral anemone ( Corynactis californica ) |
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The coral anemones (Corallimorphidae) are a generic and species-poor family of disc anemones (Corallimorpharia) within the flower animals (Anthozoa). They are mostly distributed almost worldwide in the coastal waters of warmer and temperate seas.
features
They form colonies and, unlike sea anemones, have grown together at the base. The retractile, "buttoned tentacles " are characteristic of the coral anemones . H. the tentacle ends are thickened into small spheres.
Geographical distribution
Coral anemones not only live in the tropics like the other disc anemones, but are also found in temperate seas and the subtropics . The California coral anemone ( Corynactis californica ) lives in the Gulf of California , the jewel anemone ( Corynactis viridis ) in the northeast Atlantic, south to the Canary Islands , the Caribbean jewel anemone ( Pseudocorynactis caribbeorum ) lives in the Caribbean .
Systematics
The family currently comprises three genera with a total of about 18 species, z. Some are poorly known.
- Family coral anemones (Corallimorphidae Hertwig, 1882)
- Genus Corallimorphus Moseley, 1877
- Corallimorphus denhartogi Fautin, White & Pearson, 2002
- Corallimorphus ingens Gravier, 1918
- Corallimorphus pilatus Fautin, White & Pearson, 2002
- Corallimorphus profundus Moseley, 1877
- Corallimorphus rigidus Moseley, 1877
- Genus Corynactis Allman, 1846
- Corynactis annulata (Verrill, 1867)
- Corynactis australis Haddon & Duerden, 1896
- Corynactis californica Carlgren, 1936
- Corynactis carnea Studer, 1879
- Corynactis chilensis Carlgren, 1941
- Corynactis delawarei Resist, 1976
- Corynactis denhartogi Ocaña, 2003
- Corynactis denticulosa (Le Sueur, 1817)
- Corynactis globulifera (Hemprich & Ehrenberg in Ehrenberg, 1834)
- Corynactis hoplites Haddon & Shackleton, 1893
- Corynactis mediterranea Sars, 1857
- Corynactis parvula Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860
- Corynactis sanmatiensis (Zamponi, 1976)
- Corynactis viridis Allman, 1846
- Genus Pseudocorynactis den Hartog, 1980
- Pseudocorynactis caboverdensis den Hartog, Ocaña & Brito, 1993
- Pseudocorynactis caribbeorum den Hartog, 1980
- Genus Corallimorphus Moseley, 1877
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Daphne Fautin - Hexacorallians of the World ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- Marymegan Daly, Mercer R. Brugler, Paulyn Cartwright, Allen G. Collin, Michael N. Dawson, Daphne G. Fautin, Scott C. France, Catherine S. McFadden, Dennis M. Opresko, Estefania Rodriguez, Sandra L. Romano & Joel L. Stake: The phylum Cnidaria: A review of phylogenetic patterns and diversity 300 years after Linnaeus. Zootaxa, 1668: 127-182, Wellington 2007 ISSN 1175-5326 Abstract - PDF
- J. Ch. Delbeek, Julian Sprung: Das Riffaquarium , Volume 2, Dähne Verlag, ISBN 3921684455
