African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Heteractis magnifica (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)

AfReMaS name details

Heteractis magnifica (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)

AphiaID

290090 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:290090)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Radianthus magnifica (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)

Rank

Species

Parent

Heteractis Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1851

Original name

Actinia magnifica Quoy & Gaimard, 1833

Synonymised names

Radianthus ritteri (Kwietniewski, 1897) · unaccepted (also syn of Heteractis crispa)

Environment

marine, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of ) Quoy, J. R. C.; Gaimard, J. P. (1833). Zoologie IV: Zoophytes. In:Zoologie. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe : exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829 / sous le commandement de J. Dumont d'Urville. pp. 1-390. Paris, J. Tastu., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2064339
page(s): 140-141 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Rodríguez, E.; Fautin, D; Daly, M. (2025). World List of Actiniaria. Heteractis magnifica (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=290090 on 2026-06-30

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Heteractis magnifica (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=290090 on 2026-06-30

Taxonomic edit history

Date

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2008-01-16 10:35:54Z

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van der Land, Jacob

2009-09-15 08:51:01Z

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Fautin, Daphne

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Fautin, Daphne

2022-09-28 15:36:37Z

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Rodríguez, Estefanía

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page(s): 140-141 [details]

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additional source Fautin, D. G. (1985). Competition by anemone fishes for host actinians. Proceedings of the Fifth International Coral Reef Congress, 5, 373-377
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additional source Fautin, D. G. (1986). Why do anemonefishes inhabit only some host actinians?. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 15(3): 171-180, available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00002992
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additional source Fautin, D. G. (1992). Anemonefish recruitment: the roles of order and chance. Symbiosis, 14, 143-160
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additional source Brolund, T. M.; Tychsen, A.; Nielsen, L. E.; Arvedlund, M. (2004). An assemblage of the host anemone Heteractis magnifica in the northern Red Sea, and distribution of the resident anemonefish. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 84, 671-674, available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315404009737h
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additional source Stoletzki, N.; Schierwater, B. (2005). Genetic and color morph differentiation in the Caribbean sea anemone Condylactis gigantea. Marine Biology, 147, 747-754, available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-005-1620-y
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additional source Hattori, A. (2006). Vertical and horizontal distribution patterns of the giant sea anemone Heteractis crispa with symbiotic anemonefish on a fringing coral reef. Journal of Ethology, 24(1): 51-57
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additional source Ilyna, A. P.; Monastyrnaya, M. M.; Sokotun, I. N.; Egorov, T. A.; Nazarenko, Y. A.; Likhatskaya, G. N.; Kozlovskaya, E. P. (2005). Actinoporins from the Sea of Japan anemone Oulactis orientalis: isolation and partial characterization. Russian Journal of Bioorganic Chemistry, 31(1): 34-42, available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11171-005-0004-x
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additional source Holbrook, S. J.; Schmitt, R. J. (2005). Growth, reproduction and survival of a tropical sea anemone (Actiniaria): benefits of hosting anemonefish. Coral Reefs, 24(90): 67-73
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additional source Klyshko, E. V.; Issaeva, M. P.; Monastyrnaya, M. M.; Ilyna, A. P.; Guzev, K. V.; Vakorina, T. I.; Dmitrenok, P. S.; Zykova, T. A.; Kozlovskaya, E. P. (2004). Isolation, properties and partial amino acid sequence of a new actinoporin from the sea anemone Radianthus macrodactylus. Toxicon, 44, 315-324, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.toxicon.2004.06.006
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additional source Il'ina, A. P.; Monastyrnaya, M. M.; Isaeva, M. P.; Guzev, K. V.; Rasskazov, V. A.; Kozlovskaya, E. P. (2005). Primary structures of actinoporins from sea anemone Oulactis orientalis. Russian Journal of Bioorganic Chemistry, 31(4): 320-324, available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11171-005-0044-2
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additional source Zamponi, M. O. (2005). Estudio de la reproducción sexual de las anémonas de mar (Actiniaria) y la estrategia del hombre pobre (the poor man's game). Revista Real Academia Galega de Ciencias, 24
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additional source Scott, A.; Harrison, P. L. (2007). Broadcast spawning of two species of sea anemone, Entacmaea quadricolor and Heteractis crispa, that host anemonefish. Invertebrate Reproduction and Development, 50(3): 163-171, available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/07924259.2007.9652241
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additional source Buston, P. M.; Cant, M. A. (2006). A new perspective on size hierarchies in nature: patterns, causes, and consequences. Oecologia, 149, 362-372, available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-006-0442-z
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additional source Arvedlund, M.; Iwao, K.; Brolund, T. M.; Takemura, A. (2006). Juvenile Thalassoma amblycephalum Bleeker (Labridae, Teleostei) dwelling among the tentacles of sea anemones: a cleanerfish with an unusual talent?. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 329, 161-173, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2005.08.005
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additional source Daly, M.; Chaudhuri, A.; Gusmão, L.; Rodríguez, E. (2008). Phylogenetic relationships among sea anemones (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actiniaria). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 48, 292-301, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2008.02.022
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additional source Hasegawa, Y.; Honma, T.; Nagai, H.; Ishida, M.; Nagashima, Y.; Shiomi, K. (2006). Isolation and cDNA cloning of a potassium channel peptide toxin from the sea anemone Anemonia erythraea. Toxicon, 48, 536-542, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.toxicon.2006.07.002
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additional source Fautin, D. G.; Tan, S. H.; Tan, R. (2009). Sea anemones (Cnidaria: Actiniaria) of Singapore: abundant and well-known shallow-water species. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 22, 121-143
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additional source Daly, M.; Gusmão, L.; Reft, A. J.; Rodríguez, E. (2010). Phylogenetic signal in mitochondrial and nuclear markers in sea anemones (Cnidaria, Actiniaria). Integrative and Comparative Biology, 50(3): 371-388, available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icq081
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additional source Alegre-Cebollada, J.; Oñaderra, M.; Gavilanes, J. G.; Martínez del Pozo, A. (2007). Sea anemone actinoporins: the transition from a folded soluble state to a functionally active membrane-bound oligomeric pore. Current Protein and Peptide Science, 8, 558-572, available online at https://doi.org/10.2174/138920307783018686
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additional source Hoeksema, B. W.; Crowther, A. L. (2011). Masquerade, mimicry and crypsis of the polymorphic sea anemone Phyllodiscus semoni and its aggreagations in South Sulawesi. Contributions to Zoology, 80(4): 251-268, available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/18759866-08004003
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additional source Allen, G. R.; Drew, J.; Fenner, D. P. (2011). Amphiprion pacificus, a new species of anemonefish (Pomacentridae) from Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, and Wallis Island. Aqua -- International Journal of Ichthyology, 16(3): 129-138
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additional source Il'ina, A. P.; Lipkin, A.; Barsova, E.; Issaeva, M. P.; Leychenko, E.; Guzev, K. V.; Monastyrnaya, M. M.; Lukyanov, S.; Kozlovskaya, E. P. (2006). Amino acid sequence of RTX-A's isoform actinoporin from the sea anemone, Radianthus macrodactylus. Toxicon, 47, 517-520, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.toxicon.2005.12.014
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