WoRMS taxon details
Epizoanthus incrustatus Düben & Koren, 1847
AphiaID: 150642
AphiaID: 150642
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Zoanthidea (Order) > Macrocnemina (Suborder) > Epizoanthidae (Family) > Epizoanthus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Epizoanthus Gray, 1867 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: 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: 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: J.C. den Hartog & J. van der Land, 2000-2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Digby [details] Gulf of Maine [details] North Atlantic [details] North East Atlantic [details] North Sea [details] North West Atlantic [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
omnivore [details]
predator [details] scavenger [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications) 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: Entire coastline from Bay of Fundy to Florida [details] Habitat: bathyal and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Reproduction: reproduce asexually through longitudinal fission and sexually (protandric hermaphrodites) [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:150642 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Reimer, J.; Sinniger, F. (2013). Epizoanthus incrustatus Düben & Koren, 1847. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=150642 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||||||||
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