Epiactis
- Epiactis prolifera Verrill 1868
- Epiactis marsupialis Carlgren 1901
- Epiactis incerta Carlgren 1921
- Phellia arctica Verrill 1868
- Epiactis nordmanni Carlgren 1921
- Epigonactis fecunda Verrill 1899
- Epiactis vincentina Carlgren 1939
- Epiactis georgiana Carlgren 1927
- Epiactis brucei Carlgren 1939
- Epiactis crateriformis Carlgren and Stephenson 1929
- Epiactis adeliana Carlgren and Stephenson 1929
- Epiactis lewisi Carlgren 1940
- Bunodactis japonica Verrill 1869
- Epiactis nova-zealandica Stephenson 1918
- Actinia Thomsoni [sic] Coughtrey 1874
- Epiactis irregularis Carlgren 1949
Characteristics
Actiniidae with well developed base and smooth column rarely provided with a cuticle. Margin and fosse distinct. Sphincter usually circumscribed, often strong, rarely restricted. Tentacles simple, short, not attenuated at the base. Longitudinal muscles of tentacles and radial muscles of oral disc ectodermal to more or less mesogloeal. Mesenteries hexamerously arranged. Younger mesenteries growing from the base to the margin wherefore there are usually more mesenteries at the base than at the margin. At least 12 pairs of mesenteries perfect. Retractors diffuse to restricted, often very strong. Gonads in all stronger mesenteries. Cnidom: spirocysts, basitrichs, microbasic p-mastigophors. Embryos often developing in brood-pouches or adherent to column.References
Carlgren, O. 1949. A Survey of the Ptychodactiaria, Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria. Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakadamiens Handlingar, series 4, volume 1, number 1.
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Please note that Carlgren's text contains a number of errors, and much of the information is now out of date.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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