WoRMS name details
Adamsia Forbes, 1840
100751 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:100751)
unaccepted
Genus
Actinia carciniopados Otto, 1823 accepted as Adamsia palliata (Fabricius, 1779) accepted as Calliactis palliata (Müller, 1776) (type by original designation)
- Species Adamsia fusca Milne Edwards, 1857
- Species Adamsia bicolor Le Sueur, 1817 accepted as Calliactis tricolor (Le Sueur, 1817)
- Species Adamsia carciniopados (Otto, 1823) accepted as Adamsia palliata (Fabricius, 1779) accepted as Calliactis palliata (Müller, 1776)
- Species Adamsia carcinopados accepted as Adamsia palliata (Fabricius, 1779) accepted as Calliactis palliata (Müller, 1776)
- Species Adamsia carcioniopados accepted as Adamsia palliata (Fabricius, 1779) accepted as Calliactis palliata (Müller, 1776)
- Species Adamsia decorata accepted as Calliactis polypus (Forsskål, 1775)
- Species Adamsia diaphana accepted as Aiptasia diaphana (Rapp, 1829) accepted as Exaiptasia diaphana (Rapp, 1829)
- Species Adamsia effta accepted as Calliactis parasitica (Couch, 1842)
- Species Adamsia egletes Duchassaing de Fombressin & Michelotti, 1866 accepted as Calliactis tricolor (Le Sueur, 1817)
- Species Adamsia elegans accepted as Sagartia elegans (Dalyell, 1848) accepted as Cylista elegans (Dalyell, 1848)
- Species Adamsia fischeri Andres, 1883 accepted as Aiptasiogeton pellucidus (Hollard, 1848) accepted as Aiptasiogeton hyalinus (Delle Chiaje, 1822)
- Species Adamsia involvens McMurrich, 1893 accepted as Paracalliactis consors (Verrill, 1882)
- Species Adamsia maculata Johnst. accepted as Adamsia palliata (Fabricius, 1779) accepted as Calliactis palliata (Müller, 1776)
- Species Adamsia miriam Haddon & Shackleton, 1893 accepted as Calliactis polypus (Forsskål, 1775)
- Species Adamsia obvolva Daly, Ardelean, Cha, Campbell & Fautin, 2004 accepted as Paracalliactis obvolva (Daly, Ardelean, Cha, Campbell & Fautin, 2004)
- Species Adamsia paguri (Verrill, 1869) accepted as Verrillactis paguri (Stimpson in Verrill, 1869)
- Species Adamsia palliata (Bohadsch, 1761) accepted as Adamsia palliata (Fabricius, 1779) accepted as Calliactis palliata (Müller, 1776) (Suppressed under the plenary powers for nomenclatural purposes in Opinion 185)
- Species Adamsia palliata (Fabricius, 1779) accepted as Calliactis palliata (Müller, 1776) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Adamsia priapus accepted as Calliactis parasitica (Couch, 1842)
- Species Adamsia rondelethi accepted as Adamsia rondeletii (Delle Chiaje, 1822) accepted as Calliactis (Sagartia) parasitica (Couch, 1842) accepted as Calliactis parasitica (Couch, 1842)
- Species Adamsia rondeleti (Delle Chiaje, 1822) accepted as Adamsia rondeletii (Delle Chiaje, 1822) accepted as Calliactis (Sagartia) parasitica (Couch, 1842) accepted as Calliactis parasitica (Couch, 1842)
- Species Adamsia rondeletii (Delle Chiaje, 1822) accepted as Calliactis (Sagartia) parasitica (Couch, 1842) accepted as Calliactis parasitica (Couch, 1842)
- Species Adamsia rondelettii accepted as Anthothoe vincentina (Pax, 1922)
- Species Adamsia rubroalba accepted as Sagartia rubroalba (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) accepted as Cylista rubroalba (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
- Species Adamsia sociabilis Verrill, 1882 accepted as Calliactis sociabilis (Verrill, 1882) (Gusmão et al. 2019 synonymized Calliactis and Adamsia and transferred this species to Calliactis)
- Species Adamsia sol (Verrill, 1864) accepted as Verrillactis sol (Verrill, 1864)
- Species Adamsia tricolor (Le Sueur, 1817) accepted as Calliactis tricolor (Le Sueur, 1817)
- Species Adamsia caicinopadus (uncertain > nomen dubium)
- Species Adamsia effaeta (uncertain > nomen dubium)
- Species Adamsia effoeta (uncertain > nomen dubium)
- Species Adamsia mesembryanthemum (uncertain > nomen dubium)
- Species Adamsia parasitica (uncertain > nomen dubium)
- Species Adamsia polypus (uncertain > nomen dubium)
marine, terrestrial
Forbes, E. (1840). On the British Actiniadae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 5, 180-184
page(s): 180 [details]
page(s): 180 [details]
Rodríguez, E.; Fautin, D; Daly, M. (2025). World List of Actiniaria. Adamsia Forbes, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=100751 on 2025-05-02
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Nomenclature
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Forbes, E. (1840). On the British Actiniadae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 5, 180-184
page(s): 180 [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): 180 [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): 58, 65, 67, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83 [details]
additional source Krijgsman, B.J. & F.H. Talbot, 1953. Experiments on digestion in sea-anemones. Arch. Intern. Physiol. 61 3: 277-291.
page(s): 279 [details]
additional source Moseley, H.N. 1877. Of the colouring matters of various animals, and especially of deep-sea forms dredged by H.M.S. Challenger.-- Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, new ser., 17: 1-23.
page(s): 4 [details]
additional source Gravier, C. (1918). Note preliminaire sur les Hexactiniaires recueillis au cours des croisieres de la Princesse-Alice et de l'Hirondelle de 1888 a 1913 inclusivement. <i>Bull. Inst. Oceanogr., Monaco</i>. 346:1-24.
page(s): 2 [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): 158 [details]
additional source Fautin, D. G. (2016). Catalog to families, genera, and species of orders Actiniaria and Corallimorpharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4145(1): 1-449., available online at http://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/viewFile/zootaxa.4145.1.1/21995
page(s): 188; note: Key points: "Type species is not in agreement with Carlgren (1949). Authorship is in agreement with Carlgren (1949). In agreement with Neave (1939a), senior homonym of gastropod genus Adamsia o...
[details] 
additional source Gosse P.H. (1859). Characters and descriptions of some new British sea-anemones. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 3(3): 46-50., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22070219
page(s): 48 [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): 98 [details]
additional source Verrill, A.E. (1928). Hawaiian shallow water Anthozoa. <em>Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum.</em> 49: 1-30, pls. 1-5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38875672
page(s): 15, 16 [details]
additional source Verrill, A.E. (1907). The Bermuda Islands. Part IV. Geology and paleontology, and part V. An account of the coral reefs. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 12: 45-348., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14214322
page(s): 264, 265 [details]
additional source Doumenc, D.; Chintiroglou, C.; Foubert, A. (1989). Variabilité du genre Telmatactis Gravier. <em>Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat. Paris,.</em> 11: 5-45.
page(s): 30 [details]
additional source Holthuis, L.B.; Manning, R.B. (1990). Crabs of the subfamily Dorippinae MacLeay, 1838, from the Indo-West Pacific Region (Crustacea: Decapoda: Dorippidae). <em>Researches in Crustacea.</em> Spec. no. 3: 1-151.
page(s): 60 [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Andres, A. (1883). Le Attinie (Monografia). Coi Tipi der Salviucci. Roma., volume 1 (Bibliografia, introduzione e specigrafia), pp. 460.
page(s): 158-159 [details]
additional source England, K. W. (1971). Actiniaria from Mururoa Atoll Tuamotu, Polynesia (Hormathiidae, Calliactis polypus Sagartiidae: Verrillactis n. gen. Paguri). Cahiers du Pacifique, 15, 23-40
page(s): 34 [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): 460, 477, 481 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1945). Further contributions to the knowledge of the cnidom in the Anthozoa especially in the Actiniaria. Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapets Handlingar, 56, N.F., (9): 1-24
page(s): 22 [details]
additional source Dechancé, M.; Dufaure, J. P. (1959). Une nouvelle association entre une actinie et un pagure. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris, 249(16): 1566-1568
page(s): 1566 [details]
additional source Ates, R. M. L. (1989). Fishes that eat sea anemones, a review. Journal of Natural History, 23, 71-79
page(s): 71 [details]
additional source Gravier, C. (1922). Hexactinidés provenant des campagnes des yachts Hirondelle I et II et Princesse-Alice I et II (1888-1913). Imprimerie de Monaco. Monaco., volume 63, pp. 104
page(s): 48-49, 92-93, 98-99, Pl. III, fig. 28 [details]
additional source Pei, Z. (1998). Coelenterata Actiniaria Ceriantharia Zoanthidea. Science Press. Beijing., pp. 286.
page(s): 161-162, 230 [details]
additional source Fautin, D. G.; Zelenchuk, T.; Raveendran, D. (2007). Genera of orders Actiniaria and Corallimorpharia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Hexacorallia), and their type species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1668: 183-244., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1668.1.12
page(s): 188 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Dunn, D. F. (1982). Cnidaria. McGraw-Hill Book Company. New York and other cities., volume 1, pp. 669-706
page(s): 698 [details]
additional source Guinot, D.; Doumenc, D. A.; Chintiroglou, C. C. (1995). A review of the carrying behaviour in brachyuran crabs, with additional information on the symbioses with sea anemones. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 43(2): 377-416
page(s): 388, 403 [details]
additional source Andres, A. (1883). Le Attinie. Atti dell' Accademia de Lincei, 14, 3, Memorie, 211-673
page(s): 343, 366-367, 637 [details]
additional source Rodríguez, E.; Gusmão, L. C. (2024). Case 3805 – Calliactis Verrill, 1869 (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Hexacorallia, Actiniaria): proposed precedence over Adamsia Forbes, 1840. <em>The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 81(1)., available online at https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v81.a005 [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 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): 58, 65, 67, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83 [details]
additional source Krijgsman, B.J. & F.H. Talbot, 1953. Experiments on digestion in sea-anemones. Arch. Intern. Physiol. 61 3: 277-291.
page(s): 279 [details]
additional source Moseley, H.N. 1877. Of the colouring matters of various animals, and especially of deep-sea forms dredged by H.M.S. Challenger.-- Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, new ser., 17: 1-23.
page(s): 4 [details]
additional source Gravier, C. (1918). Note preliminaire sur les Hexactiniaires recueillis au cours des croisieres de la Princesse-Alice et de l'Hirondelle de 1888 a 1913 inclusivement. <i>Bull. Inst. Oceanogr., Monaco</i>. 346:1-24.
page(s): 2 [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): 158 [details]
additional source Fautin, D. G. (2016). Catalog to families, genera, and species of orders Actiniaria and Corallimorpharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4145(1): 1-449., available online at http://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/viewFile/zootaxa.4145.1.1/21995
page(s): 188; note: Key points: "Type species is not in agreement with Carlgren (1949). Authorship is in agreement with Carlgren (1949). In agreement with Neave (1939a), senior homonym of gastropod genus Adamsia o...
Key points: "Type species is not in agreement with Carlgren (1949). Authorship is in agreement with Carlgren (1949). In agreement with Neave (1939a), senior homonym of gastropod genus Adamsia of Dunker, G., 1857, Mollusca nova collectionis Cumingianæ. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 24:357. Authorship of both genera is in agreement with Neave (1939a).
additional source Gosse P.H. (1859). Characters and descriptions of some new British sea-anemones. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 3(3): 46-50., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22070219
page(s): 48 [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): 98 [details]
additional source Verrill, A.E. (1928). Hawaiian shallow water Anthozoa. <em>Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum.</em> 49: 1-30, pls. 1-5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38875672
page(s): 15, 16 [details]
additional source Verrill, A.E. (1907). The Bermuda Islands. Part IV. Geology and paleontology, and part V. An account of the coral reefs. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 12: 45-348., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14214322
page(s): 264, 265 [details]
additional source Doumenc, D.; Chintiroglou, C.; Foubert, A. (1989). Variabilité du genre Telmatactis Gravier. <em>Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat. Paris,.</em> 11: 5-45.
page(s): 30 [details]
additional source Holthuis, L.B.; Manning, R.B. (1990). Crabs of the subfamily Dorippinae MacLeay, 1838, from the Indo-West Pacific Region (Crustacea: Decapoda: Dorippidae). <em>Researches in Crustacea.</em> Spec. no. 3: 1-151.
page(s): 60 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Andres, A. (1883). Le Attinie (Monografia). Coi Tipi der Salviucci. Roma., volume 1 (Bibliografia, introduzione e specigrafia), pp. 460.
page(s): 158-159 [details]
additional source England, K. W. (1971). Actiniaria from Mururoa Atoll Tuamotu, Polynesia (Hormathiidae, Calliactis polypus Sagartiidae: Verrillactis n. gen. Paguri). Cahiers du Pacifique, 15, 23-40
page(s): 34 [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): 460, 477, 481 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1945). Further contributions to the knowledge of the cnidom in the Anthozoa especially in the Actiniaria. Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapets Handlingar, 56, N.F., (9): 1-24
page(s): 22 [details]
additional source Dechancé, M.; Dufaure, J. P. (1959). Une nouvelle association entre une actinie et un pagure. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris, 249(16): 1566-1568
page(s): 1566 [details]
additional source Ates, R. M. L. (1989). Fishes that eat sea anemones, a review. Journal of Natural History, 23, 71-79
page(s): 71 [details]
additional source Gravier, C. (1922). Hexactinidés provenant des campagnes des yachts Hirondelle I et II et Princesse-Alice I et II (1888-1913). Imprimerie de Monaco. Monaco., volume 63, pp. 104
page(s): 48-49, 92-93, 98-99, Pl. III, fig. 28 [details]
additional source Pei, Z. (1998). Coelenterata Actiniaria Ceriantharia Zoanthidea. Science Press. Beijing., pp. 286.
page(s): 161-162, 230 [details]
additional source Fautin, D. G.; Zelenchuk, T.; Raveendran, D. (2007). Genera of orders Actiniaria and Corallimorpharia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Hexacorallia), and their type species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1668: 183-244., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1668.1.12
page(s): 188 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Dunn, D. F. (1982). Cnidaria. McGraw-Hill Book Company. New York and other cities., volume 1, pp. 669-706
page(s): 698 [details]
additional source Guinot, D.; Doumenc, D. A.; Chintiroglou, C. C. (1995). A review of the carrying behaviour in brachyuran crabs, with additional information on the symbioses with sea anemones. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 43(2): 377-416
page(s): 388, 403 [details]
additional source Andres, A. (1883). Le Attinie. Atti dell' Accademia de Lincei, 14, 3, Memorie, 211-673
page(s): 343, 366-367, 637 [details]
additional source Rodríguez, E.; Gusmão, L. C. (2024). Case 3805 – Calliactis Verrill, 1869 (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Hexacorallia, Actiniaria): proposed precedence over Adamsia Forbes, 1840. <em>The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 81(1)., available online at https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v81.a005 [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]
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