Deep-Sea taxon details
Hormathia digitata (O.F. Müller, 1776)
100951 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:100951)
accepted
Species
marine, terrestrial
(of ) Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae Indigenarum characters, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. [Prodromus of Danish Zoology, or the characters, names, and synonyms of the indigenous animals of Denmark and Norway, especially of the popular ones.]. <em>Typis Hallageriis, Havniae.</em> 32: 1-282., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47550 [details] 
Distribution Newfoundland to the Gulf of Maine
Distribution Newfoundland to the Gulf of Maine [details]
Rodríguez, E.; Fautin, D; Daly, M. (2025). World List of Actiniaria. Hormathia digitata (O.F. Müller, 1776). 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=100951 on 2025-11-07
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Hormathia digitata (O.F. Müller, 1776). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=100951 on 2025-11-07
Date
action
by
original description
(of ) Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae Indigenarum characters, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. [Prodromus of Danish Zoology, or the characters, names, and synonyms of the indigenous animals of Denmark and Norway, especially of the popular ones.]. <em>Typis Hallageriis, Havniae.</em> 32: 1-282., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47550 [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [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 Ross, D.M., 1974. Behavior patterns in associations and interactions with other animals. In: L. Muscatine & H.M. Lenhoff, eds, Coelenterate Biology. Reviews and new perspectives : 281-312.
page(s): 288 [details]
additional source Laverack, M.S. & M. Blackler (eds.). (1974). Fauna and flora of St. Andrews Bay. <em>Edinburgh & London, Scottish Academic Press.</em> 310 pp.
page(s): 29 [details]
additional source Lewis, John B. 1965. A preliminary description of some marine benthic communities from Barbados, West Indies. Canadian Journal of Zoology 43: 1049-1074.
page(s): 1063 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1932). Die Ceriantharien, Zoantharien und Actiniarien des arktischen Gebietes. Eine Zusammenstellung der arktischen Tierformen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Spitzbergen-Gebietes auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Deutschen Expedition in das Nördliche Eismeer im Jahre 1898. <em>Gustav Fischer.Jena.</em> 255-266.
page(s): 263 [details]
additional source Pax, F. (1936). Anthozoa. In: G. Grimpe & E. Wagler (eds.). Die Tierwelt der Nord- und Ostsee. Bd. IIIe. Akad. Verlagsges., Becker & Erler, Leipzig. 317 pp.
page(s): 110 [details]
additional source Stephenson, T. A. (1935). The British Sea Anemones. Volume II. <em>The Ray Society. London.</em> pp. 426.
page(s): 259-269 [details]
additional source Manuel, R. L. (1981). British Anthozoa. <em>London: Academic Press.</em> 241 pp. (Synopses of the British Fauna).
page(s): 165 [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): 93 [details]
additional source Stephenson, T. A. (1920). On the classification of Actiniaria. Part I. -- Forms with acontia and forms with a mesogloeal sphincter. <em>Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.</em> 64, 2, (256): 425-574., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27706883#page/509/mode/1up
page(s): 535 [details]
additional source den Hartog, J. C. (1977). Notes on the little known sea anemone Cataphellia brodricii and on the closely allied Hormathia coronata and Paraphellia expansa (Actiniaria, Hormathiidae). Netherlands Journal of Zoology, 27(3): 237-244
page(s): 240 [details]
additional source Riemann-Zürneck, K. (1994). Taxonomy and ecological aspects of the Subarctic sea anemones Hormathia digitata, Hormathia nodosa and Allantactis parasitica (Coelenterata, Actiniaria). Ophelia, 39(3): 197-224
page(s): 199-205 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1940). A contribution to the knowledge of the structure and distribution of the cnidae in the Anthozoa. Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapets Handlingar, 51, N.F., (3): 1-62
page(s): 7, 42, 44 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1930). Actiniaria and Zoantharia. Andr. Fred. Høst and Søn. Copenhagen., volume 1, pp. 05-01
page(s): 3 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1933). The Godthaab Expedition 1928 Zoantharia and Actiniaria. Meddelelser om Grønland, 79(8): 1-55
page(s): 25-26 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1939). Actiniaria, Zoantharia, and Madreporaria. Zoology of Iceland, 2, 8, 1-20
page(s): 9 [details]
additional source Ates, R. M. L. (1989). Fishes that eat sea anemones, a review. Journal of Natural History, 23, 71-79
page(s): 72 [details]
additional source Ates, R. M. L. (1997). Gastropods carrying actinians. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Coelenterate Biology, 11-20
page(s): 12, 13, 16 [details]
additional source Grebelny, S. D. (1980). The northern representatives of the genus Hormathia (Hormathiidae, Actinaria). Explorations of the Fauna of the Seas, 25 On the progress in taxonomy of marine invertebrates(33): 12-28
page(s): 12-28 [details]
additional source Grebelny, S. D. (1980). Distribution of the Actiniae in the Arctic. Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Leningrad and Murmamsk., pp. 20-33
page(s): 20, 24-30 [details]
additional source Haddon, A. C. (1898). The Actiniaria of Torres Straits. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, 6, 2, 393-520
page(s): 459 [details]
additional source Riemann-Zürneck, K. (1973). Actiniaria des Südwestatlantik I. Hormathiidae. Helgoländer Wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen, 25, 273-325
page(s): 273, 322 [details]
additional source Collings, D. W. (1938). The Actiniaria of Suffolk (sea-anemones). Transactions of the Suffolk Naturalists' Society, IV, 25-28
page(s): 27 [details]
additional source Stephenson, T. A. (1928). The British Sea Anemones. Volume I. The Ray Society. London., volume 1, pp. 148.
page(s): 111 [details]
additional source Grebelny, S. D. (1982). Symmetriya aktinei i ee znachenie dlya klassifikatsii Anthozoa [Symmetry of actinians and its significance for the classification of Anthozoa]. Akademiya Nauk SSSR [Academy of Sciences of the USSR]. Vladivostok., pp. 101-123
page(s): 104 [details]
additional source den Hartog, J. C. (1986). The Queen Scallop, Chlamys opercularis (L., 1758) (Bivalvia, Pectinidae), as a food item of the sea anemone Urticina eques (Gosse, 1860) (Actiniaria, Actiniidae). Basteria, 50, 87-92
page(s): 87 [details]
additional source Ates, R. M. L. (1998). Observations on the symbiosis between Colus gracilis (Da Costa, 1778) (Mollusca: Gastropoda) and Hormathia digitata (O.F. Müller, 1776) (Cnidaria: Actiniaria). Zoologische Verhandelingen, 323, 257-262
page(s): 257-261 [details]
additional source Pei, Z. (1998). Coelenterata Actiniaria Ceriantharia Zoanthidea. Science Press. Beijing., pp. 286.
page(s): 162, 230 [details]
additional source Uchida, H.; Soyama, I. (2001). Sea Anemones in Japanese Waters. TBS. Japan., pp. 157.
page(s): 32, 151, 153 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1945). Polypdyr (Coelenterata) III. Koraldyr. Danmarks Fauna Udgivet af Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening, 51, 3-167
page(s): 127-128, 157 [details]
additional source Fautin, D. G. (1998). Class Anthozoa: Orders Actiniaria, Ceriantharia, and Zoantharia. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara., chapter 3, volume 3, pp. 113-139
page(s): 118-119 [details]
additional source Ates, R. M. L. (1997). Bloemdieren: De Zeeanemonen En Hun Verwanten Van De Nederlandse Kust. C. Moerman. Zeeanjer., pp. 31.
page(s): 27 [details]
additional source Zhiubikas, I. I. (1977). Some species of actinians of the western region of the Barents Sea and Franz Josef Land. Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. Zoological Institute. St. Petersburg., volume Explorations of the fauna of the seas XIV (XXII), pp. 106-125
page(s): 117-120 [details]
additional source Fautin, D. G.; Daly, M.; Cappola, V. A. (2005). Sea anemones (Cnidaria: Actiniaria) of the Faroe Islands: a preliminary list and biogeographic context. Annales Societatis Scientiarum Færoensis, 41, 77-87
page(s): 78, 81, 82 [details]
additional source Jonsson, L. G.; Nilsson, P. G.; Floruta, F.; Lundälv, T. (2004). Distributional patterns of macro- and megafauna associated with a reef of the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa on the Swedish west coast. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 284, 163-171
page(s): 166 [details]
additional source Grebelny, S. D. (1986). Class Anthozoa, subclass Hexacorallia -- hexameral corals, orders Actiniaria and Ptychodactiaria [in Russian]. Akademia Nauk, USSR. Apatity, pp. 87-91
page(s): 90 [details]
additional source Grebel'nyi, S. D. (2001). Hexacorallia. Explorations of the Fauna of the Seas, 51(59): 36-38
page(s): 37 [details]
additional source Goodwill, R. H.; Fautin, D. G.; Furey, J.; Daly, M. (2009). A sea anemone symbiotic with gastropods of eight species in the Mariana Islands. Micronesica, 41(1): 117-130
page(s): 127 [details]
additional source Ross, D. M.; Kikuchi, T. (1976). Some symbiotic associations between anemones and gastropods in Japan. Publications from the Amakusa Marine Biological Laboratory, 4(1): 41-50
page(s): 41 [details]
additional source Mercier, A.; Hamel, J. (2008). Nature and role of newly described symbiotic associations between a sea anemone and gastropods at bathyal depths in the NW Atlantic. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 358, 57-69
page(s): 65, 67 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1942). Actiniaria Part II. Danish Ingolf-Expedition, 5, 12, 1-92
page(s): 44-46 [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. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Howson, C.M. & B.E. Picton. (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. <em>Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8.</em> vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [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 Ross, D.M., 1974. Behavior patterns in associations and interactions with other animals. In: L. Muscatine & H.M. Lenhoff, eds, Coelenterate Biology. Reviews and new perspectives : 281-312.
page(s): 288 [details]
additional source Laverack, M.S. & M. Blackler (eds.). (1974). Fauna and flora of St. Andrews Bay. <em>Edinburgh & London, Scottish Academic Press.</em> 310 pp.
page(s): 29 [details]
additional source Lewis, John B. 1965. A preliminary description of some marine benthic communities from Barbados, West Indies. Canadian Journal of Zoology 43: 1049-1074.
page(s): 1063 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1932). Die Ceriantharien, Zoantharien und Actiniarien des arktischen Gebietes. Eine Zusammenstellung der arktischen Tierformen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Spitzbergen-Gebietes auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Deutschen Expedition in das Nördliche Eismeer im Jahre 1898. <em>Gustav Fischer.Jena.</em> 255-266.
page(s): 263 [details]
additional source Pax, F. (1936). Anthozoa. In: G. Grimpe & E. Wagler (eds.). Die Tierwelt der Nord- und Ostsee. Bd. IIIe. Akad. Verlagsges., Becker & Erler, Leipzig. 317 pp.
page(s): 110 [details]
additional source Stephenson, T. A. (1935). The British Sea Anemones. Volume II. <em>The Ray Society. London.</em> pp. 426.
page(s): 259-269 [details]
additional source Manuel, R. L. (1981). British Anthozoa. <em>London: Academic Press.</em> 241 pp. (Synopses of the British Fauna).
page(s): 165 [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): 93 [details]
additional source Stephenson, T. A. (1920). On the classification of Actiniaria. Part I. -- Forms with acontia and forms with a mesogloeal sphincter. <em>Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.</em> 64, 2, (256): 425-574., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27706883#page/509/mode/1up
page(s): 535 [details]
additional source den Hartog, J. C. (1977). Notes on the little known sea anemone Cataphellia brodricii and on the closely allied Hormathia coronata and Paraphellia expansa (Actiniaria, Hormathiidae). Netherlands Journal of Zoology, 27(3): 237-244
page(s): 240 [details]
additional source Riemann-Zürneck, K. (1994). Taxonomy and ecological aspects of the Subarctic sea anemones Hormathia digitata, Hormathia nodosa and Allantactis parasitica (Coelenterata, Actiniaria). Ophelia, 39(3): 197-224
page(s): 199-205 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1940). A contribution to the knowledge of the structure and distribution of the cnidae in the Anthozoa. Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapets Handlingar, 51, N.F., (3): 1-62
page(s): 7, 42, 44 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1930). Actiniaria and Zoantharia. Andr. Fred. Høst and Søn. Copenhagen., volume 1, pp. 05-01
page(s): 3 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1933). The Godthaab Expedition 1928 Zoantharia and Actiniaria. Meddelelser om Grønland, 79(8): 1-55
page(s): 25-26 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1939). Actiniaria, Zoantharia, and Madreporaria. Zoology of Iceland, 2, 8, 1-20
page(s): 9 [details]
additional source Ates, R. M. L. (1989). Fishes that eat sea anemones, a review. Journal of Natural History, 23, 71-79
page(s): 72 [details]
additional source Ates, R. M. L. (1997). Gastropods carrying actinians. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Coelenterate Biology, 11-20
page(s): 12, 13, 16 [details]
additional source Grebelny, S. D. (1980). The northern representatives of the genus Hormathia (Hormathiidae, Actinaria). Explorations of the Fauna of the Seas, 25 On the progress in taxonomy of marine invertebrates(33): 12-28
page(s): 12-28 [details]
additional source Grebelny, S. D. (1980). Distribution of the Actiniae in the Arctic. Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Leningrad and Murmamsk., pp. 20-33
page(s): 20, 24-30 [details]
additional source Haddon, A. C. (1898). The Actiniaria of Torres Straits. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, 6, 2, 393-520
page(s): 459 [details]
additional source Riemann-Zürneck, K. (1973). Actiniaria des Südwestatlantik I. Hormathiidae. Helgoländer Wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen, 25, 273-325
page(s): 273, 322 [details]
additional source Collings, D. W. (1938). The Actiniaria of Suffolk (sea-anemones). Transactions of the Suffolk Naturalists' Society, IV, 25-28
page(s): 27 [details]
additional source Stephenson, T. A. (1928). The British Sea Anemones. Volume I. The Ray Society. London., volume 1, pp. 148.
page(s): 111 [details]
additional source Grebelny, S. D. (1982). Symmetriya aktinei i ee znachenie dlya klassifikatsii Anthozoa [Symmetry of actinians and its significance for the classification of Anthozoa]. Akademiya Nauk SSSR [Academy of Sciences of the USSR]. Vladivostok., pp. 101-123
page(s): 104 [details]
additional source den Hartog, J. C. (1986). The Queen Scallop, Chlamys opercularis (L., 1758) (Bivalvia, Pectinidae), as a food item of the sea anemone Urticina eques (Gosse, 1860) (Actiniaria, Actiniidae). Basteria, 50, 87-92
page(s): 87 [details]
additional source Ates, R. M. L. (1998). Observations on the symbiosis between Colus gracilis (Da Costa, 1778) (Mollusca: Gastropoda) and Hormathia digitata (O.F. Müller, 1776) (Cnidaria: Actiniaria). Zoologische Verhandelingen, 323, 257-262
page(s): 257-261 [details]
additional source Pei, Z. (1998). Coelenterata Actiniaria Ceriantharia Zoanthidea. Science Press. Beijing., pp. 286.
page(s): 162, 230 [details]
additional source Uchida, H.; Soyama, I. (2001). Sea Anemones in Japanese Waters. TBS. Japan., pp. 157.
page(s): 32, 151, 153 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1945). Polypdyr (Coelenterata) III. Koraldyr. Danmarks Fauna Udgivet af Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening, 51, 3-167
page(s): 127-128, 157 [details]
additional source Fautin, D. G. (1998). Class Anthozoa: Orders Actiniaria, Ceriantharia, and Zoantharia. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara., chapter 3, volume 3, pp. 113-139
page(s): 118-119 [details]
additional source Ates, R. M. L. (1997). Bloemdieren: De Zeeanemonen En Hun Verwanten Van De Nederlandse Kust. C. Moerman. Zeeanjer., pp. 31.
page(s): 27 [details]
additional source Zhiubikas, I. I. (1977). Some species of actinians of the western region of the Barents Sea and Franz Josef Land. Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. Zoological Institute. St. Petersburg., volume Explorations of the fauna of the seas XIV (XXII), pp. 106-125
page(s): 117-120 [details]
additional source Fautin, D. G.; Daly, M.; Cappola, V. A. (2005). Sea anemones (Cnidaria: Actiniaria) of the Faroe Islands: a preliminary list and biogeographic context. Annales Societatis Scientiarum Færoensis, 41, 77-87
page(s): 78, 81, 82 [details]
additional source Jonsson, L. G.; Nilsson, P. G.; Floruta, F.; Lundälv, T. (2004). Distributional patterns of macro- and megafauna associated with a reef of the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa on the Swedish west coast. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 284, 163-171
page(s): 166 [details]
additional source Grebelny, S. D. (1986). Class Anthozoa, subclass Hexacorallia -- hexameral corals, orders Actiniaria and Ptychodactiaria [in Russian]. Akademia Nauk, USSR. Apatity, pp. 87-91
page(s): 90 [details]
additional source Grebel'nyi, S. D. (2001). Hexacorallia. Explorations of the Fauna of the Seas, 51(59): 36-38
page(s): 37 [details]
additional source Goodwill, R. H.; Fautin, D. G.; Furey, J.; Daly, M. (2009). A sea anemone symbiotic with gastropods of eight species in the Mariana Islands. Micronesica, 41(1): 117-130
page(s): 127 [details]
additional source Ross, D. M.; Kikuchi, T. (1976). Some symbiotic associations between anemones and gastropods in Japan. Publications from the Amakusa Marine Biological Laboratory, 4(1): 41-50
page(s): 41 [details]
additional source Mercier, A.; Hamel, J. (2008). Nature and role of newly described symbiotic associations between a sea anemone and gastropods at bathyal depths in the NW Atlantic. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 358, 57-69
page(s): 65, 67 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1942). Actiniaria Part II. Danish Ingolf-Expedition, 5, 12, 1-92
page(s): 44-46 [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. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Howson, C.M. & B.E. Picton. (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. <em>Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8.</em> vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Distribution Newfoundland to the Gulf of Maine [details]Habitat shelf to slope [details]
Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hormathia digitata)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 14 proteins)
To PESI
To The Arctic Traits Database (2 traits)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (12 records)
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hormathia digitata)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 14 proteins)
To PESI
To The Arctic Traits Database (2 traits)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (12 records)
To ITIS
Unreviewed
