Actinia equina (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 100803

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Cnidaria > Anthozoa > Hexacorallia > Actiniaria > Nyantheae > Thenaria > Endomyaria > Actiniidae > Actinia

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Actinia Linnaeus, 1767
Sources		original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] 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] basis of record: MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp. [details] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (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] 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] context source: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   Albanian anemonia e kuqe  [details] Albanian thundërkali e kuqe  [details] Catalan tomàquet de mar  [details] Dutch gemeene zeeanemoon  [details] Dutch gewone zeeanemoon  [details] Dutch paardenanemoon  [details] Dutch rode paardeanemoon  [details] Dutch rode paardenanemoon  [details] English beadlet anemone  [details] Finnish hepomerivuokko  [details] French actinie rouge  [details] German Pferdeaktinie  [details] Italian pomodoro di mare  [details] Modern Greek (1453-) Κόκκινη ανεμώνα  [details] Portuguese Morango-do-mar  [details] Spanish tomate de mar  [details]
Environment		marine
Distribution		Atlantic [details] Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] East North Atlantic [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Indian Ocean [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Kerkennah Islands [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Mozambique [details] Oostende [details] Oosterschelde [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] South Africa [details] South Africa (country) [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wadden Sea [details] Westerschelde [details] Wimereux [details]
Host of		Doridicola actiniae (Della Valle, 1880) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Paranthessius anemoniae Claus, 1889 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Lichomolgus actiniae Della Valle, 1880 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Gastroecus arcticus Hansen, 1886 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Parastaurosoma kamchaticum Avdeev & Avdeev, 1975 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links		Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (305 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (35 nucleotides; 56 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS
Images		Actinia equina (Linnaeus, 1758) added on 2006-09-08 - author: Nuyttens, Filip qualitystatus: not checked Actinia equina (Linnaeus, 1758) added on 2006-09-08 - author: Nuyttens, Filip qualitystatus: not checked Actinia equina (Linnaeus, 1758) added on 2006-09-08 - author: Nuyttens, Filip qualitystatus: not checked Actinia equina (Linnaeus, 1758) added on 2006-09-08 - author: Nuyttens, Filip qualitystatus: not checked Actinia equina (Linnaeus, 1758) added on 2006-09-14 - author: Decleer Misjel qualitystatus: not checked Actinia equina added on 2010-02-12 - author: Collection VLIZ () qualitystatus: not checked Actinia equina Linnaeus, 1758 added on 2010-10-21 - author: Hillewaert, Hans qualitystatus: not checked Actinia equina added on 2011-11-01 - author: Collection VLIZ qualitystatus: not checked Actinia equina added on 2011-11-01 - author: Collection VLIZ qualitystatus: not checked Paardenanemoon added on 2011-11-23 - author: Geert Vanhulle () qualitystatus: not checked Actinia equina added on 2012-01-23 - author: Eneman, Eddy qualitystatus: not checked Actinia equina added on 2012-03-14 - author: VLIZ Collection qualitystatus: not checked
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:100803
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   van der Land, Jacob
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		Citation: BeRMS (2013). Actinia equina (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Fautin, Daphne G. 2011. Hexacorallians of the World. Accessed through: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010) The Belgian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=100803 on 2013-05-21
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