WoRMS taxon details
Actinostola callosa (Verrill, 1882)
AphiaID: 100839
AphiaID: 100839
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Actiniaria (Order) > Nyantheae (Suborder) > Thenaria (Infraorder) > Mesomyaria (Superfamily) > Actinostolidae (Family) > Actinostola (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||
| Parent | Actinostola Verrill, 1883 | |||||||||
| Sources |
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] additional source: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] additional source: Sebens, K.P. 1998. Marine flora and fauna of the eastern United States. Anthozoa, Actinaria, Corallimorparia, Ceriantharia, and Zoanthidea. NOAA Technical Report NMFS 141. 68 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: Fautin, Daphne G. (2011). Hexacorallians of the World., available online at http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/Hexacoral/Anemone2/ [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||
| Distribution | European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] North West Atlantic [details] Northern North Atlantic [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (32 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||
| Notes |
syn.: A. abyssorum [details] Diet: Generally, anthozoans are primarly carnivorous which prey on sea urchins, gastropods, bivalves, or crustaceans that crawl or swim into their grasp. [details] Distribution: Cape Hatteras to Bay of Fundy [details] Habitat: shelf to abyssal [details] Habitat: sandy, muddy, or rocky habitats; also may attached themselves to hard parts or products of other organisms (shells) [details] Reproduction: reproduce asexually through longitudinal fission and sexually (protandric hermaphrodites) [details] | |||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:100839 | |||||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Actinostola callosa (Verrill, 1882). In: Fautin, Daphne G. 2011. Hexacorallians of the World. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=100839 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||
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