WoRMS taxon details
Corynactis Allman, 1846
Sphincteractis Zamponi, 1976 · unaccepted
- Species Corynactis annulata (Verrill, 1867)
- Species Corynactis australis Haddon & Duerden, 1896
- Species Corynactis caboverdensis (den Hartog, Ocaña & Brito, 1993)
- Species Corynactis californica Carlgren, 1936
- Species Corynactis carnea Studer, 1879
- Species Corynactis chilensis Carlgren, 1941
- Species Corynactis delawarei Widersten, 1976
- Species Corynactis denhartogi Ocaña, 2003
- Species Corynactis denticulosa (Le Sueur, 1817)
- Species Corynactis globulifera (Hemprich & Ehrenberg in Ehrenberg, 1834)
- Species Corynactis parvula Duchassaing de Fonbressin & Michelotti, 1860
- Species Corynactis sanmatiensis (Zamponi, 1976)
- Species Corynactis viridis Allman, 1846
- Species Corynactis albida Agassiz, 1859 accepted as Haloclava producta (Stimpson, 1856)
- Species Corynactis albida Stuckey, 1909 accepted as Corynactis australis Haddon & Duerden, 1896
- Species Corynactis allmani Thompson, 1847 accepted as Corynactis viridis Allman, 1846
- Species Corynactis allmanni accepted as Corynactis viridis Allman, 1846
- Species Corynactis allmannii accepted as Corynactis viridis Allman, 1846
- Species Corynactis bahamensis Watzl, 1922 accepted as Ricordea florida Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860
- Species Corynactis caribbeorum (den Hartog, 1980) accepted as Pseudocorynactis caribbeorum Den Hartog, 1980
- Species Corynactis clavigera accepted as Actinodactylus clavigerum (Drayton in Dana, 1846)
- Species Corynactis globulosa Quoy & Gaimard, 1833 accepted as Eloactis globulosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
- Species Corynactis gracilis Farquhar, 1898 accepted as Corynactis australis Haddon & Duerden, 1896
- Species Corynactis haddoni Farquhar, 1898 accepted as Corynactis australis Haddon & Duerden, 1896 (synonym)
- Species Corynactis hertwigi Haddon, 1898 accepted as Corallimorphus rigidus Moseley, 1877
- Species Corynactis heterocera Thompson, 1853 accepted as Capnea sanguinea Forbes, 1841
- Species Corynactis hoplites Haddon & Shackleton, 1893 accepted as Paracorynactis hoplites (Haddon & Shackleton, 1893) (new combination, basionym)
- Species Corynactis magnifica (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) accepted as Heteractis magnifica (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) accepted as Radianthus magnifica (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
- Species Corynactis mediterranea Sars M., 1857 accepted as Corynactis viridis Allman, 1846 (synonymy)
- Species Corynactis mollis Farquhar, 1898 accepted as Corynactis australis Haddon & Duerden, 1896 (synonym)
- Species Corynactis myrcia accepted as Corynactis parvula Duchassaing de Fonbressin & Michelotti, 1860 (synonym)
- Species Corynactis quadricolor Leuckart accepted as Entacmaea quadricolor (Leuckart in Rüppell & Leuckart, 1828)
- Species Corynactis vas Quoy & Gaimard accepted as Entacmaea quadricolor (Leuckart in Rüppell & Leuckart, 1828)
marine, terrestrial
Allman, G. J. (1846). Description of a new genus of helianthoid zoophytes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 17, 417-419
page(s): 417 [details]
page(s): 417 [details]
Daly, M.; Fautin, D.G. (2013). World List of Corallimorpharia. Corynactis Allman, 1846. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=100785 on 2025-05-04
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Nomenclature
original description
Allman, G. J. (1846). Description of a new genus of helianthoid zoophytes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 17, 417-419
page(s): 417 [details]
original description (of Sphincteractis Zamponi, 1976) Zamponi, M. O. (1976). Enmienda a la familia Sideractiidae Danielssen 1890 (Anthozoa: Corallimorpharia) con la creacion de Sphincteractis sanmatiensis gen. et sp. nov. Physis (Buenos Aires), 35A(91): 127-133
page(s): 128 [details]
original description (of Draytonia Duchassaing de Fombressin & Michelotti, 1864) Duchassaing P, Michelotti J. (1864). Supplément au mémoire sur les coralliaires des Antilles. <em>Memorie della Reale Accademia della Scienze di Torino, Serie 2.</em> 23: 97-206, plates 1-11., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31197612
page(s): 30 [details]
basis of record van der Land, J.; den Hartog, J.H. (2001). Actiniaria, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 106-109 (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): 417 [details]
original description (of Sphincteractis Zamponi, 1976) Zamponi, M. O. (1976). Enmienda a la familia Sideractiidae Danielssen 1890 (Anthozoa: Corallimorpharia) con la creacion de Sphincteractis sanmatiensis gen. et sp. nov. Physis (Buenos Aires), 35A(91): 127-133
page(s): 128 [details]
original description (of Draytonia Duchassaing de Fombressin & Michelotti, 1864) Duchassaing P, Michelotti J. (1864). Supplément au mémoire sur les coralliaires des Antilles. <em>Memorie della Reale Accademia della Scienze di Torino, Serie 2.</em> 23: 97-206, plates 1-11., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31197612
page(s): 30 [details]
basis of record van der Land, J.; den Hartog, J.H. (2001). Actiniaria, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 106-109 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Other
context source (Hexacorallia)
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Doumenc D. & Foubert A. (1984). Microinformatique et taxonomie des actinies: Cle mondiale des genres. Annales de l'Institut Océanographique, 60, 1, 43-86.
page(s): 59, 61, 72, 73, 80, 81, 82, 83 [details]
additional source Daly, M.M., Fautin D.G., Cappola V.A., 2003. Systematics of the Hexacorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139 3: 419-437.
page(s): 422, 424-425, 427-428 [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Cutress, C. E. 1971. Corallimorpharia, Actiniaria and Zoanthidea. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, 32: 89–93
page(s): 130 [details]
additional source Moseley H.N. 1877. On new forms of Actiniaria dredged in the deep sea; with a description of certain pelagic surface-swimming species.Transactions of the Linnean Society (London) Ser. 2. 1(5):295-305
page(s): 301 [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Delage, Y.; Hérouard, E. (1901). Traité de zoologie concrète. Tome II – Deuxième partie. Les coelentérés. <em>Paris: Schleicher Frères.</em> 848 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52123450
page(s): 536 [details]
additional source Andres, A. (1884). Le attinie. Volume primo, contente bibliografia, introduzione e specigrafia. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81386
page(s): 276-277 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1949). A survey of the Ptychodactiaria, Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria. <em>Kungliga Svenska Vet- enskapsakadamiens Handlingar.</em> 1: 1–121.
page(s): 13 [details]
additional source Hertwig, R. (1888). Report on the Actiniaria dredged by HMS 'Challenger' during the years 1873-1876. Supplement. <em>Reports on the scientific results of the voyage of HMS Challenger during the years 1873-76.</em> XXVI, pt. LXXIII: 4–56. London, Edinburgh & Dublin., available online at https://archive.org/details/reportonactiniar00hert/page/16
page(s): 10-13 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1943). East-Asiatic Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria. <em>Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar.</em> 20: 1-43, pls. 1-2.
page(s): 4, 6 [details]
additional source Fenner, D. P. (2005). Corals of Hawai'i. A Field Guide to the Hard, Black, and Soft Corals of Hawai'i and the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, Including Midway. <em>Mutual Publishing, Ltd., Honolulu.</em> 144 pp.
page(s): 28, 95 [details]
additional source den Hartog, J. C. (1980). Caribbean Shallow Water Corallimorpharia. Zoologische Verhandelingen, (176): 83 pp.
page(s): 18-19 [details]
additional source den Hartog, J. C.; Ocaña, O.; Brito, A. (1993). Corallimorpharia collected during the CANCAP expeditions (1976-1986) in the south-eastern part of the North Atlantic. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 282, 3-76
page(s): 27 [details]
additional source Andres, A. (1883). Le Attinie (Monografia). Coi Tipi der Salviucci. Roma., volume 1 (Bibliografia, introduzione e specigrafia), pp. 460.
page(s): 276-277 [details]
additional source Menon, K. R. (1927). Subclass Zoantharia (except Scleractiniae). Bulletin of Madras Government Museum (Natural History Section), 1(1): 31-40
page(s): 37 [details]
additional source Faurot, L. (1895). Études sur l'anatomie, l'histologie et le développement des actinies. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale, 3, 3, 43-262
page(s): 51, 153 [details]
additional source Verrill, A. E. (1868-1870). Review of the corals and polyps of the west coast of America. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 1, 6, 377-558.
page(s): 462 [details]
additional source Riemann-Zürneck, K.; Iken, K. (2003). Corallimorphus profundus in shallow Antarctic habitats: bionomics, histology, and systematcis (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia). Zoologische Verhandelingen, 345, 367-386
page(s): 380 [details]
additional source Hertwig, R. (1882). Die Actinien der Challenger Expedition. Gustav Fischer. Jena., pp. 119.
page(s): 20 [details]
additional source Hertwig, R. (1882). Report on the Actiniaria dredged by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 (Zoology), 6(1): 1-136
page(s): 23 [details]
additional source McMurrich, J. P. (1893). Report on the Actiniæ collected by the United States Fish Commission Steamer Albatross during the winter of 1887-1888. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 16(930): 119-216
page(s): 128 [details]
additional source McMurrich, J. P. (1904). The Actiniae of the Plate collection. Zoologische Jahrbücher, 6 Suppl.(2): 215-306
page(s): 293 [details]
additional source Uchida, T. (1940). The fauna of Akkeshi Bay X. Actiniaria. Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido Imperial University, 7, 6, (3): 265-275
page(s): 266, 272 [details]
additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Castro, C. B.; Echeverría, C. A.; Pires, D. de Oliveira; Mascarenhas, B. J. de A.; Freitas, S. G. (1995). Distribuição de Cnidaria e echinodermata no infralitoral de costões rochosos de arraial do cabo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Revista Brasileira de Biologia (Rio de Janeiro), 55(3): 471-480
page(s): 471-472, 476-479 [details]
additional source Robson, E. A. (2004). Cnidogenesis in the jewel anemone Corynactis californica (Carlgren, 1936) and C. viridis (Allman, 1846) (Anthozoa: Corallimorpharia). Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden, 78(27): 461-476
page(s): 463, 464, 469, 471 [details]
additional source Dunn, D. F. (1982). Cnidaria. McGraw-Hill Book Company. New York and other cities., volume 1, pp. 669-706
page(s): 700 [details]
additional source Andres, A. (1883). Le Attinie. Atti dell' Accademia de Lincei, 14, 3, Memorie, 211-673
page(s): 480, 481-482, 639 [details]
additional source Doumenc D. & Foubert A. (1984). Microinformatique et taxonomie des actinies: Cle mondiale des genres. Annales de l'Institut Océanographique, 60, 1, 43-86.
page(s): 59, 61, 72, 73, 80, 81, 82, 83 [details]
additional source Daly, M.M., Fautin D.G., Cappola V.A., 2003. Systematics of the Hexacorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139 3: 419-437.
page(s): 422, 424-425, 427-428 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Cutress, C. E. 1971. Corallimorpharia, Actiniaria and Zoanthidea. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, 32: 89–93
page(s): 130 [details]
additional source Moseley H.N. 1877. On new forms of Actiniaria dredged in the deep sea; with a description of certain pelagic surface-swimming species.Transactions of the Linnean Society (London) Ser. 2. 1(5):295-305
page(s): 301 [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Delage, Y.; Hérouard, E. (1901). Traité de zoologie concrète. Tome II – Deuxième partie. Les coelentérés. <em>Paris: Schleicher Frères.</em> 848 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52123450
page(s): 536 [details]
additional source Andres, A. (1884). Le attinie. Volume primo, contente bibliografia, introduzione e specigrafia. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81386
page(s): 276-277 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1949). A survey of the Ptychodactiaria, Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria. <em>Kungliga Svenska Vet- enskapsakadamiens Handlingar.</em> 1: 1–121.
page(s): 13 [details]
additional source Hertwig, R. (1888). Report on the Actiniaria dredged by HMS 'Challenger' during the years 1873-1876. Supplement. <em>Reports on the scientific results of the voyage of HMS Challenger during the years 1873-76.</em> XXVI, pt. LXXIII: 4–56. London, Edinburgh & Dublin., available online at https://archive.org/details/reportonactiniar00hert/page/16
page(s): 10-13 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1943). East-Asiatic Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria. <em>Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar.</em> 20: 1-43, pls. 1-2.
page(s): 4, 6 [details]
additional source Fenner, D. P. (2005). Corals of Hawai'i. A Field Guide to the Hard, Black, and Soft Corals of Hawai'i and the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, Including Midway. <em>Mutual Publishing, Ltd., Honolulu.</em> 144 pp.
page(s): 28, 95 [details]
additional source den Hartog, J. C. (1980). Caribbean Shallow Water Corallimorpharia. Zoologische Verhandelingen, (176): 83 pp.
page(s): 18-19 [details]
additional source den Hartog, J. C.; Ocaña, O.; Brito, A. (1993). Corallimorpharia collected during the CANCAP expeditions (1976-1986) in the south-eastern part of the North Atlantic. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 282, 3-76
page(s): 27 [details]
additional source Andres, A. (1883). Le Attinie (Monografia). Coi Tipi der Salviucci. Roma., volume 1 (Bibliografia, introduzione e specigrafia), pp. 460.
page(s): 276-277 [details]
additional source Menon, K. R. (1927). Subclass Zoantharia (except Scleractiniae). Bulletin of Madras Government Museum (Natural History Section), 1(1): 31-40
page(s): 37 [details]
additional source Faurot, L. (1895). Études sur l'anatomie, l'histologie et le développement des actinies. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale, 3, 3, 43-262
page(s): 51, 153 [details]
additional source Verrill, A. E. (1868-1870). Review of the corals and polyps of the west coast of America. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 1, 6, 377-558.
page(s): 462 [details]
additional source Riemann-Zürneck, K.; Iken, K. (2003). Corallimorphus profundus in shallow Antarctic habitats: bionomics, histology, and systematcis (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia). Zoologische Verhandelingen, 345, 367-386
page(s): 380 [details]
additional source Hertwig, R. (1882). Die Actinien der Challenger Expedition. Gustav Fischer. Jena., pp. 119.
page(s): 20 [details]
additional source Hertwig, R. (1882). Report on the Actiniaria dredged by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 (Zoology), 6(1): 1-136
page(s): 23 [details]
additional source McMurrich, J. P. (1893). Report on the Actiniæ collected by the United States Fish Commission Steamer Albatross during the winter of 1887-1888. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 16(930): 119-216
page(s): 128 [details]
additional source McMurrich, J. P. (1904). The Actiniae of the Plate collection. Zoologische Jahrbücher, 6 Suppl.(2): 215-306
page(s): 293 [details]
additional source Uchida, T. (1940). The fauna of Akkeshi Bay X. Actiniaria. Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido Imperial University, 7, 6, (3): 265-275
page(s): 266, 272 [details]
additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Castro, C. B.; Echeverría, C. A.; Pires, D. de Oliveira; Mascarenhas, B. J. de A.; Freitas, S. G. (1995). Distribuição de Cnidaria e echinodermata no infralitoral de costões rochosos de arraial do cabo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Revista Brasileira de Biologia (Rio de Janeiro), 55(3): 471-480
page(s): 471-472, 476-479 [details]
additional source Robson, E. A. (2004). Cnidogenesis in the jewel anemone Corynactis californica (Carlgren, 1936) and C. viridis (Allman, 1846) (Anthozoa: Corallimorpharia). Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden, 78(27): 461-476
page(s): 463, 464, 469, 471 [details]
additional source Dunn, D. F. (1982). Cnidaria. McGraw-Hill Book Company. New York and other cities., volume 1, pp. 669-706
page(s): 700 [details]
additional source Andres, A. (1883). Le Attinie. Atti dell' Accademia de Lincei, 14, 3, Memorie, 211-673
page(s): 480, 481-482, 639 [details]
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