WoRMS banner

WoRMS RSS feed RSS
Add search provider Add provider
Twitter: Latest updates @WRMarineSpecies

WoRMS taxon details

Corynactis Allman, 1846 
AphiaID: 100785

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Corallimorpharia (Order) > Corallimorphidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Corallimorphidae Hertwig, 1882
Synonymised
taxa
  Sphincteractis
Sources  basis of record: van der Land, J.; den Hartog, J.H. (2001). Actiniaria, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 106-109 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Ocaña, O.; Fautin, D. (2009). Actiniaria, Corallimorpharia, Zoanthidea (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: Fautin, Daphne G. (2011). Hexacorallians of the World., available online at http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/Hexacoral/Anemone2/ [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Species Corynactis annulata (Verrill, 1867)
Species Corynactis australis Haddon & Duerden, 1896
Species Corynactis caboverdensis (den Hartog, Ocaña & Brito, 1993)
Species Corynactis californica Carlgren, 1936
Species Corynactis caribbeorum (den Hartog, 1980)
Species Corynactis carnea Studer, 1879
Species Corynactis chilensis Carlgren, 1941
Species Corynactis delawarei Widersten, 1976
Species Corynactis denhartogi Ocaña, 2003
Species Corynactis denticulosa (Le Sueur, 1817)
Species Corynactis globulifera (Hemprich & Ehrenberg in Ehrenberg, 1834)
Species Corynactis hoplites Haddon & Shackleton, 1893
Species Corynactis mediterranea Sars, 1857
Species Corynactis parvula Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860
Species Corynactis sanmatiensis (Zamponi, 1976)
Species Corynactis viridis Allman, 1846

Species Corynactis albida Agassiz, 1859 accepted as Haloclava producta (Stimpson, 1856)
Species Corynactis bahamensis Watzl, 1922 accepted as Ricordea florida Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860
Species Corynactis gracilis Farquhar, 1898 accepted as Corynactis australis Haddon & Duerden, 1896
Species Corynactis haddoni Farquhar, 1898 accepted as Corynactis australis Haddon & Duerden, 1896
Species Corynactis mollis Farquhar, 1898 accepted as Corynactis australis Haddon & Duerden, 1896
Species Corynactis myrcia accepted as Corynactis parvula Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860
Environment marine
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Image 
Polybius (Necora) puber (Linnaeus, 1767) and Corynactis sp.
Polybius (Necora) puber (Linnaeus, 1767) and Corynactis sp.
added on 2006-04-26 - author: Daniel Vaulot
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:100785
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
  
[Taxonomic tree] [Distribution map] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images]
  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Corynactis Allman, 1846. In: Fautin, Daphne G. 2011. Hexacorallians of the World. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=100785 on 2013-05-21
  Creative Commons License The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License