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Stichodactyla gigantea (Forsskål, 1775)

291133 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:291133)

accepted
Species
marine, terrestrial
(of ) Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2088059
page(s): 100-101 [details] OpenAccess publication
Rodríguez, E.; Fautin, D; Daly, M. (2025). World List of Actiniaria. Stichodactyla gigantea (Forsskål, 1775). Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=291133 on 2026-09-19
Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Stichodactyla gigantea (Forsskål, 1775). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=291133 on 2026-09-19
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2008-01-16 10:35:54Z
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2009-09-15 08:51:01Z
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original description (of ) Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2088059
page(s): 100-101 [details] OpenAccess publication

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

basis of record den Hartog, J. C. & van der Land, J. (2000-2007). As a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

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
page(s): 166, 167, 170 [details] 

additional source Astalhov, D. A. (2002). Species composition of anemonefishes (Perciformes, Pomacentridae) and their host sea anemones (Cnidaria, Actiniaria) in the Khanhhoa Province (South Vietnam). Journal of Ichthyology, 42(1): 37-50
page(s): 38, 48 [details] 

additional source Chintiroglou, C. C.; Doumenc, D. A.; Le Renard, J.; Foubert, A.; Kolyva-Machaira, P. (1996). Classification of cnidarian nematocysts using multivariate and digital image analysis. Bios, 4, 123-135
page(s): 127, 132 [details] 

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
page(s): 295 [details] 

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
page(s): 374 [details] 

additional source den Hartog, J. C. (1997). Notes on the genus Amphiprion Bloch & Schneider, 1801 (Teleostei: Pomacentridae) and its host sea anemones in the Seychelles. Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden, 71(17), 181-188
page(s): 182 [details] 

additional source Dunn, D. F. (1981). The clownfish sea anemones: Stichodactylidae (Coelenterata: Actiniaria) and other sea anemones symbiotic with pomacentrid fishes. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 71, 1, 1-115, available online at https://doi.org/10.70249/9798893982138
page(s): 3-4, 13, 81, 91-99, 103, 107 [details] 

additional source Dunn, D. F. (1985). Sea anemones that harbor symbiotic pomacentrid fishes in the western Pacific. National Geographic Society Research Reports, 18, 279-283
page(s): 280 [details] 

additional source England, K. W. (1987). Certain Actiniaria (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from the Red Sea and tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), 53(4): 205-292
page(s): 207 [details] 

additional source Fautin, D. G. (1985). Competition by anemone fishes for host actinians. Proceedings of the Fifth International Coral Reef Congress, 5, 373-377
page(s): 374-375, 377 [details] 

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
page(s): 173 [details] 

additional source Fautin, D. G. (1988). Sea anemones (Actiniaria and Corallimorpharia) of Madang Province. Science in New Guinea, 14(1): 22-29
page(s): 26 [details] 

additional source Fautin, D. G. (1991). The anemonefish symbiosis: what is known and what is not. Symbiosis, 10, 23-46
page(s): 27, 33 [details] 

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
page(s): 121, 123, 132, 133, 140 [details] 

additional source Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

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
page(s): 541 [details] 

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
page(s): 52 [details] 

additional source Hirose, Y. (1985). Habitat, distribution and abundance of coral reef sea-anemones (Actiniidae and Stichodactylidae) in Sesoko Island, Okinawa, with notes on expansion and contraction behavior. Galaxea, 4(2), 113-127
page(s): 114, 116-121, 123-125 [details] 

additional source Honma, T.; Hasegawa, Y.; Ishida, M.; Nagai, H.; Nagashima, Y.; Shiomi, K. (2004). Isolation and molecular cloning of novel peptide toxins from the sea anemone Antheopsis maculata. Toxicon, 45, 33-41
page(s): 34, 40 [details] 

additional source Honma, T.; Kawahata, S.; Ishida, M.; Nagai, H.; Nagashima, Y.; Shiomi, K. (2008). Novel peptide proteins from the sea anemone Stichodactyla haddoni. Peptides, 29, 536-544, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peptides.2007.12.010
page(s): 536, 541, 542, 543 [details] 

additional source Honma, T.; Minagawa, S.; Nagai, H.; Ishida, M.; Nagashima, Y.; Shiomi, K. (2005). Novel peptide toxins from acrorhagi, aggressive organs of the sea anemone Actinia equina. Toxicon, 46, 7, 768-774, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.toxicon.2005.08.003
page(s): 768, 773 [details] 

additional source Honma, T.; Nagai, H.; Nagashima, Y.; Shiomi, K. (2003). Molecular cloning of an epidermal growth factor-like toxin and two sodium channel toxins from the sea anemone Stichodactyla gigantea. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 1652, 103-106, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbapap.2003.08.007
page(s): 103, 106 [details] 

additional source Honma, T.; Shiomi, K. (2006). Peptide toxins in sea anemones: structural and functional aspects. Marine Biotechnology, 8, 1-10
page(s): 2, 3, fig. 1 [details] 

additional source Kokshoorn, B.; Goud, J.; Gittenberger, E.; Gittenberger, A. (2007). Epitoniid parasites (Gastropoda, Caenogastropoda, Epitoniidae) and their host sea anemones (Cnidaria, Actiniaria, Ceriantharia) in the Spermonde archipelago, Sulawesi, Indonesia. <em>Basteria.</em> 71(1-3): 33-56., available online at https://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/597334
page(s): 48, 52 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Mitchell, J. S. (2003). Mobility of Stichodactyla gigantea sea anemones and implications for resident false clown anemonefish, Amphiprion ocellaris. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 66, 85-90, available online at https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1023286009054
page(s): 85-89 [details] 

additional source Mitchell, J. S.; Dill, L. M. (2005). Why is group size correlated with the size of the host sea anemone in the false clown anemonefish?. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 83, 372-376, available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/z05-014
page(s): 372, 373 [details] 

additional source Ninh, T. D.; Nagashima, Y.; Shiomi, K. (2008). Unusual arsenic speciation in sea anemones. Chemosphere, 70, 1168-1174, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2007.08.053
page(s): 1168-1173 [details] 

additional source Rodríguez, E.; Titus, B. M.; Lauretta, D. (2024). Case 3885 – Priapus giganteus Forsskål, 1775 (currently Stichodactyla gigantea; Cnidaria, Actiniaria): proposed conservation of prevailing usage of the specific name by designation of a non-topotypic neotype for Priapus giganteus. <em>The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 81(1)., available online at https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v81.a011 [details] 

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
page(s): 168 [details] 

additional source Titus, B. M.; Bennett-Smith, M. F.; Chiodo, T.; Rodríguez, E. (2024). The clownfish-hosting sea anemones (Anthozoa: Actiniaria): updated nomenclature, biogeography, and practical field guide. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5506(1): 1-34., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5506.1.1 [details] 

additional source Uchida, H.; Soyama, I. (2001). Sea Anemones in Japanese Waters. TBS. Japan., pp. 157.
page(s): 95, 151, 155 [details] 
 
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