Deep-Sea taxon details
Hormathia Gosse, 1859
100757 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:100757)
accepted
Genus
Chondractinia Lütken, 1861 · unaccepted
- Species Hormathia alba (Andres, 1881)
- Species Hormathia coronata (Gosse, 1858)
- Species Hormathia digitata (O.F. Müller, 1776)
- Species Hormathia lacunifera (Stephenson, 1918)
- Species Hormathia nodosa (Fabricius, 1780)
- Species Hormathia pectinata (Hertwig, 1882)
- Species Hormathia spinosa (Hertwig, 1882)
- Species Hormathia bouvetensis Carlgren, 1928 accepted as Hormathia lacunifera (Stephenson, 1918)
- Species Hormathia elongata Gravier, 1918 accepted as Chondrophellia coronata (Verrill, 1883)
marine, terrestrial
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): 47 [details]
page(s): 47 [details]
Rodríguez, E.; Fautin, D; Daly, M. (2025). World List of Actiniaria. Hormathia Gosse, 1859. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=100757 on 2026-09-18
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Hormathia Gosse, 1859. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=100757 on 2026-09-18
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original description
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): 47 [details]
original description (of Chondractinia Lütken, 1861) Lütken, C. (1861). Nogle Bémærkninger om de ved de danske Kyster iagttagne Arter af Aktiniernes Gruppe. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening (Copenhagen), 14, 184-200
page(s): 188-191 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [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]
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 Carlgren, O. (1949). A survey of the Ptychodactiaria, Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria. <em>Kungliga Svenska Vet- enskapsakadamiens Handlingar.</em> 1: 1–121.
page(s): 92-94 [details]
additional source den Hartog, J. C. (1994). Sea anemones of the Seychelles. J. van der Land (eds.). National Museum of Natural History. Leiden, chapter 6.2, volume 2, pp. 75-79
page(s): 76 [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, 66, 67, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84 [details]
additional source Doumenc, D. A. (1975). Actinies bathyales et abyssales de l'océan Atlantique nord familles des Hormathiidae (genres Paracalliactis et Phelliactis) et des Actinostolidae (genres Actinoscyphia et Sicyonis). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris), 197, 3, (287): 157-204, available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/p.279151
page(s): 180 [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., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/p.292186
page(s): 30 [details]
additional source Dufaure, J. P. (1959). Une nouvelle actinie: Parastephanauge paxi, gen. nov., sp. nov. Bulletin de la Societé Zoologique de France, 84(1): 86-91
page(s): 90 [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): 279 [details]
additional source Häussermann, V.; Försterra, G. (2005). Distribution patterns of Chilean shallow-water sea anemones (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actinaria, Corallimorpharia), with a discussion of the taxonomic and zoogeographic relationships between the actinofauna of ths South East Pacific, the South West Atlantic, and the Antarctic. Scientia Marina, 69 (Suppl. 2), 91-102, available online at https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.2005.69s291
page(s): 94 [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), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198573562.001.0001 [details] Available for editors
additional source Probert, P. Keith, Batham, Elizabeth J. and Wilson, John B. 1979. Epibenthic macrofauna off southeastern New Zealand and mid-shelf bryozoan dominance. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 13(3): 379-392., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00288330.1979.9515814
page(s): 380, 383, 390 [details]
additional source Rodríguez, E.; Castorani, C.N.; Daly, M. (2008). Morphological phylogeny of the family Actinostolidae (Anthozoa : Actiniaria) with description of a new genus and species of hydrothermal vent sea anemone redefining the family Actinoscyphiidae. Invertebrate Systematics, 22(4), 439–452., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/IS07053
page(s): 441, 443, 448 [details]
additional source Rodríguez, E.; Daly, M. (2010). Phylogenetic relationships among deep-sea and chemosynthetic sea anemones: Actinoscyphyiidae and Actinostolidae (Actiniaria: Mesomyaria). Public Library of Science One, 5, 6, 1-8, available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010958
page(s): 4, 5 [details]
additional source Uchida, H.; Soyama, I. (2001). Sea Anemones in Japanese Waters. TBS. Japan., pp. 157.
page(s): 33 [details]
page(s): 47 [details]
original description (of Chondractinia Lütken, 1861) Lütken, C. (1861). Nogle Bémærkninger om de ved de danske Kyster iagttagne Arter af Aktiniernes Gruppe. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening (Copenhagen), 14, 184-200
page(s): 188-191 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [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]
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 Carlgren, O. (1949). A survey of the Ptychodactiaria, Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria. <em>Kungliga Svenska Vet- enskapsakadamiens Handlingar.</em> 1: 1–121.
page(s): 92-94 [details]
additional source den Hartog, J. C. (1994). Sea anemones of the Seychelles. J. van der Land (eds.). National Museum of Natural History. Leiden, chapter 6.2, volume 2, pp. 75-79
page(s): 76 [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, 66, 67, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84 [details]
additional source Doumenc, D. A. (1975). Actinies bathyales et abyssales de l'océan Atlantique nord familles des Hormathiidae (genres Paracalliactis et Phelliactis) et des Actinostolidae (genres Actinoscyphia et Sicyonis). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris), 197, 3, (287): 157-204, available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/p.279151
page(s): 180 [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., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/p.292186
page(s): 30 [details]
additional source Dufaure, J. P. (1959). Une nouvelle actinie: Parastephanauge paxi, gen. nov., sp. nov. Bulletin de la Societé Zoologique de France, 84(1): 86-91
page(s): 90 [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): 279 [details]
additional source Häussermann, V.; Försterra, G. (2005). Distribution patterns of Chilean shallow-water sea anemones (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actinaria, Corallimorpharia), with a discussion of the taxonomic and zoogeographic relationships between the actinofauna of ths South East Pacific, the South West Atlantic, and the Antarctic. Scientia Marina, 69 (Suppl. 2), 91-102, available online at https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.2005.69s291
page(s): 94 [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), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198573562.001.0001 [details] Available for editors
additional source Probert, P. Keith, Batham, Elizabeth J. and Wilson, John B. 1979. Epibenthic macrofauna off southeastern New Zealand and mid-shelf bryozoan dominance. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 13(3): 379-392., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00288330.1979.9515814
page(s): 380, 383, 390 [details]
additional source Rodríguez, E.; Castorani, C.N.; Daly, M. (2008). Morphological phylogeny of the family Actinostolidae (Anthozoa : Actiniaria) with description of a new genus and species of hydrothermal vent sea anemone redefining the family Actinoscyphiidae. Invertebrate Systematics, 22(4), 439–452., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/IS07053
page(s): 441, 443, 448 [details]
additional source Rodríguez, E.; Daly, M. (2010). Phylogenetic relationships among deep-sea and chemosynthetic sea anemones: Actinoscyphyiidae and Actinostolidae (Actiniaria: Mesomyaria). Public Library of Science One, 5, 6, 1-8, available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010958
page(s): 4, 5 [details]
additional source Uchida, H.; Soyama, I. (2001). Sea Anemones in Japanese Waters. TBS. Japan., pp. 157.
page(s): 33 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Nontype RMNH, geounit Seychellois Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype RMNH, geounit Seychellois Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype RMNH, geounit Seychellois Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype RMNH, geounit Seychellois Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hormathia)
To Genbank
To The Arctic Traits Database (2 traits)
To ITIS
To Genbank
To The Arctic Traits Database (2 traits)
To ITIS
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