Actinothoe
- Sagartia sphyrodeta Gosse 1858
- Sagartia ignea Fischer 1875
- Sagartia modesta Verrill 1866
- Sagartia gracillima Mc Murrich [sic] 1887
- Sagartia pustulata Mc Murrich [sic] 1907 [sic]
- Sagartia georgiana Carlgren 1899
- Sagartia patagonica Carlgren 1899
- Sagartia paradoxa Mc Murrich [sic] 1893
- Sagartia Sancti Matthaei [sic] Mc Murrich [sic] 1893
- Sagartia kerguelensis Pax 1922
- Sagartia pugnax Verrill 1928
- Sagartia longa Verrill 1928
- Sagartia pusilla Verrill 1928
- Sagartia plebeia Haddon 1898
- Actinothoe Milmani [sic] Haddon and Shackleton 1893
- Sagartia Carlgreni [sic] Haddon and Duerden 1896
- Gregoria albocincta Hutton 1878
- Thoe neozealandica Carlgren 1924
- Thoe albens Stuckey 1909
- Actinothoe californica Carlgren 1940
- Sagartia Bradley [sic] Verrill 1869
- Sagartia gravieri Pax 1912
- Actinia chilensis Lesson 1830
- Sagartia lobata Carlgren 1899
Characteristics
Sagartiidae with well developed base. Column smooth, not divisible into regions, with cinclides. Margin tentaculate. Sphincter well developed, mesogloeal. Tentacles and mesenteries arranged hexamerously or otherwise. Perfect mesenteries variable in number, more than 6 pairs, usually 12 or more. Older mesenteries fertile. Mesenteries about in equal number proximally and distally. Cnidom: spirocysts, basitrichs, microbasic p-mastigophors, microbasic amastigophors.References
Carlgren, O. 1949. A Survey of the Ptychodactiaria, Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria. Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakadamiens Handlingar, series 4, volume 1, number 1.
Title Illustrations
Actinothoe sphyrodeta was originally described as Sagartia sphyrodeta
| Scientific Name | Actinothoe sphyrodeta |
|---|---|
| Location | Cascais, Portugal |
| Specimen Condition | Live Specimen |
| Identified By | Oscar Ocana from collected specimens |
| Copyright |
© Peter Wirtz
|
About This Page
The information provided on this page is based on Oscar Carlgren's 1949 catalog.Copyright © 1949 Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Please note that Carlgren's text contains a number of errors, and much of the information is now out of date. An update of the catalog is currently under preparation in Daphne Fautin's laboratory, and the results of this work will be incorporated in future versions of this page.
Keyboarding of Carlgren's catalog was done as part of a project to create an electronic database of the sea anemones of the world, funded by NSF Grant DEB9521819, awarded to Daphne G. Fautin. This grant is in the program Partnerships to Enhance Expertise in Taxonomy (PEET). Susanne Hauswaldt, Katherine Pearson, and April Wakefield-Pagels contributed to the keyboarding effort.
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