WoRMS taxon details
Stomphia coccinea (Müller, 1776)
AphiaID: 100854
AphiaID: 100854
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Actiniaria (Order) > Nyantheae (Suborder) > Thenaria (Infraorder) > Mesomyaria (Superfamily) > Actinostolidae (Family) > Stomphia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Stomphia (Gosse, 1859) | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Actinia coccinea O.F. Müller (synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologica Danicae Prodromus seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum characters, nomine, et synonyma imprimis popularium. Havniae. XXXII, 274 pp., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.13268 [details] [full text]
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: 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: 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: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [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] additional source: Fautin, Daphne G. (2011). Hexacorallians of the World., available online at http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/Hexacoral/Anemone2/ [details] basis of record (from synonym): Van Beneden, P. J. 1867a. Recherches sur la faune littorale de Belgique (polypes). Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Belgique 36: 1-207, plates I-XIX. (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] Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details] East North Atlantic [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Frost Cove [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Manicouagan [details] North East Atlantic [details] North West Atlantic [details] Saguenay Fjord [details] Saint Lawrence River [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | ||||||||||
| Feedingtype | suspension feeder [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland To Biodiversity Heritage Library (28 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life 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] Habitat: sandy, muddy, or rocky habitats; also may attached themselves to hard parts or products of other organisms (shells) [details] Reproduction: reproduce asexually through longitudinal fission and sexually (protandric hermaphrodites) [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:100854 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Stomphia coccinea (Müller, 1776). 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=100854 on 2013-06-20 | |||||||||||
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