WoRMS taxon details
Anthopleura elegantissima (Brandt, 1835)
AphiaID: 283347
AphiaID: 283347
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Actiniaria (Order) > Nyantheae (Suborder) > Thenaria (Infraorder) > Endomyaria (Superfamily) > Actiniidae (Family) > Anthopleura (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Anthopleura Duchassaing de Fonbressin & Michelotti, 1860 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: 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] additional source: Fautin, Daphne G. (2011). Hexacorallians of the World., available online at http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/Hexacoral/Anemone2/ [details] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | East North Pacific [details] Pacific Ocean [details] USA [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Doridicola confinis (Humes, 1982) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Metaxymolgus confinis Humes, 1982 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (13 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (33 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (118 nucleotides; 102 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:283347 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Fautin, D. (2013). Anthopleura elegantissima (Brandt, 1835). 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=283347 on 2013-06-20 | |||||||||||
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