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Calliactis tricolor (Lesueur, 1817) 
AphiaID: 283624

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Actiniaria (Order) > Nyantheae (Suborder) > Thenaria (Infraorder) > Acontiaria (Superfamily) > Hormathiidae (Family) > Calliactis (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Calliactis Verrill, 1869
Synonymised
taxa
  Actinia bicolor Lesueur, 1817 (Senior homonym of Actinia bicolor Lesson, 1830.)
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, D. G. and M. Daly. 2009. Actiniaria, Corallimorpharia, and Zoanthidea (Cnidaria) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 349–357 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Te [details]

additional source: Fautin, Daphne G. (2011). Hexacorallians of the World., available online at http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/Hexacoral/Anemone2/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English hermit anemone  [details]
Environment marine, terrestrial
Distribution Caribbean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (17 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Note  Habitat: littoral [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:283624
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2009-09-15 08:51:01Z  checked  Fautin, Daphne
  
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  Citation: Fautin, D. (2013). Calliactis tricolor (Lesueur, 1817). 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=283624 on 2013-05-24
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