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Halcampa duodecimcirrata (Sars, 1851) 
AphiaID: 100917

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Actiniaria (Order) > Nyantheae (Suborder) > Athenaria (Infraorder) > Halcampidae (Family) > Halcampa (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Halcampa Gosse, 1858
Synonymised
taxa
  Edwardsia farinacea Verrill, 1869
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: 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: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [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: 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]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English 12-tentacle burrowing anemone  [details]
English twelve-tentacle burrowing anemone  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Cobscook Bay [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Manicouagan [details]
North Atlantic [details]
North West Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Saguenay Fjord [details]
Saint Lawrence River [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
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: Bay of Fundy to Cape Cod [details]

Habitat: shelf [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]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:100917
Taxonomic
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Halcampa duodecimcirrata (Sars, 1851). 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=100917 on 2013-05-22
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