CaRMS taxon details
context source (Introduced species)
Fofonoff, P.W.; Ruiz, G.M.; Steves, B.; Carlton, J.T. (2014). National Exotic Marine and Estuarine Species Information System (NEMESIS), available online at http://invasions.si.edu/nemesis [details]
basis of record
Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. <em>John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</em> 693 p. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [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
Thomas, M. L. H. (1983). Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> 64:1-306. [details]
additional source
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
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. , available online at https://web.archive.org/web/20191018194704/http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/Hexacoral/Anemone2/ [details]
From regional or thematic species database
Introduced species remark In Senegalese part of the North Atlantic Ocean : There are no reported impacts of this species in its introduced range. [details]
Introduced species remark In Spanish (Canary Islands) part of the North Atlantic Ocean (Marine Region) : There are no reported impacts of this species in its introduced range. [details]
Introduced species remark In Moroccan part of the North Atlantic Ocean (Marine Region) : There are no reported impacts of this species in its introduced range. [details]
Introduced species remark In Panama (Nation) : There are no reported impacts of this species in its introduced range. [details]
Introduced species remark In Cameroonian part of the Gulf of Guinea : There are no reported impacts of this species in its introduced range. [details]
Introduced species vector dispersal in Spanish (Canary Islands) part of the North Atlantic Ocean (Marine Region) : Ships: accidental as attached or free-living fouling organisms This introduction is most likely due to transport by ship fouling. [details]
Introduced species vector dispersal in Senegalese part of the North Atlantic Ocean : Ships: accidental as attached or free-living fouling organisms This introduction is most likely due to transport by ship fouling. [details]
Introduced species vector dispersal in Panama (Nation) : Ships: accidental as attached or free-living fouling organisms It has been widely introduced with oysters and ship fouling to the West Coast of North America (Coos Bay, Oregon to Newport Bay, California; Carlton 1979), the Pacific Coast of Panama (Reimer 1976), Hawaii (Carlton and Eldredge 2009), Puerto Rico (Yale Peabody Museum 2008), Morocco, the Canary Islands, and Cameroon (Ocaña and Den Hartog 2002). [details]
Introduced species vector dispersal in Moroccan part of the North Atlantic Ocean (Marine Region) : Ships: accidental as attached or free-living fouling organisms This introduction is most likely due to transport by ship fouling. [details]
Introduced species vector dispersal in Cameroonian part of the Gulf of Guinea : Ships: accidental as attached or free-living fouling organisms This introduction is most likely due to transport by ship fouling. [details]
Introduced species vector dispersal in Panama (Nation) : Fisheries: accidental with deliberate translocations of fish or shellfish It has been widely introduced with oysters and ship fouling to the West Coast of North America (Coos Bay, Oregon to Newport Bay, California; Carlton 1979), the Pacific Coast of Panama (Reimer 1976), Hawaii (Carlton and Eldredge 2009), Puerto Rico (Yale Peabody Museum 2008), Morocco, the Canary Islands, and Cameroon (Ocaña and Den Hartog 2002). [details]
Introduced species vector dispersal United States part of the North Pacific Ocean (Marine Region) Aquaculture: accidental [details]From other sources
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 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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