WoRMS taxon details
Urticina felina (Linnaeus, 1761)
AphiaID: 100834
AphiaID: 100834
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Actiniaria (Order) > Nyantheae (Suborder) > Thenaria (Infraorder) > Endomyaria (Superfamily) > Actiniidae (Family) > Urticina (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Urticina Ehrenberg, 1834 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Tealia felina (Linnaeus, 1767) (Synonym) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Linnaeus, C. (1761). Fauna Suecica sistens Animalia Sueciae Regni: Mammalia, Aves, Amphibia, Pisces, Insecta, Vermes. Distributa per Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Differentiis Specierum, Synonymis Auctorum, Nominibus Incolarum, Locis Natalium, Descriptionibus insectorum. Editio altera, auctior. Stockholmiae: L. Salvii, 48 + 578 pp. [details] 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: Bromley, J.E.C., and J.S. Bleakney. 1984. Keys to the fauna and flora of Minas Basin. National Research Council of Canada Report 24119. 366 p. [details] additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] additional source: Logan, A. 1998. A sublittoral hard substrate epibenthic community below 30 m in Head Harbour Passage, New Brunswick, Canada. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 27: 445-459. [details] additional source: Sebens, K.P. 1998. Marine flora and fauna of the eastern United States. Anthozoa, Actinaria, Corallimorparia, Ceriantharia, and Zoanthidea. NOAA Technical Report NMFS 141. 68 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Thomas, M.L.H. (ed.). 1983. Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64. 306 p. [details] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] additional source: Fautin, Daphne G. (2011). Hexacorallians of the World., available online at http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/Hexacoral/Anemone2/ [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] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] from synonym: Leloup, E. (1952). Coelentérés [Coelenterata]. ---. Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique: Brussels, Belgium. 283 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Arctic Ocean [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Birkenfels (shipwreck) [details] Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] [details] Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Manicouagan [details] North East Atlantic [details] North Sea [details] North West Atlantic [details] Oostende [details] Oosterschelde [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Saint Lawrence River [details] Southern Bight (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wadden Sea [details] Westerschelde [details] Wimereux [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
omnivore [details]
predator [details] scavenger [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | BIOTIC Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: Generally, anthozoans are primarly carnivorous which prey on sea urchins, gastropods, bivalves, or crustaceans that crawl or swim into their grasp. [details] Distribution: circumarctic boreal to Cape Cod [details] Distribution: circum-boreal to arctic [details] Habitat: infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Reproduction: reproduce asexually through longitudinal fission and sexually (protandric hermaphrodites) [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:100834 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Fautin, D. (2013). Urticina felina (Linnaeus, 1761). 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=100834 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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