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Arachnactis albida Sars, 1846
101005 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:101005)
accepted
Species
marine, terrestrial
Sars, M. (1846). Ueber Arachnactis albida, einen schwimmenden Polypen Fauna littoralis Norvegiae, 1: 28-30 [details]
Type locality contained in Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone
type locality contained in Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Molodtsova, T. (2025). World List of Ceriantharia. Arachnactis albida Sars, 1846. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=101005 on 2025-07-16
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Nomenclature
original description
Sars, M. (1846). Ueber Arachnactis albida, einen schwimmenden Polypen Fauna littoralis Norvegiae, 1: 28-30 [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]
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]
Other
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]
additional source Gosse, P. H. (1855). A manual of marine zoology for the British Isles. Part I. <em>John Van Voorst. London.</em> 203 pp. 355 figs.
page(s): 30, 188, 197 [details]
additional source Gosse, P.H., 1860. Actinologia Britannica. A history of the British sea-anemones and corals. London: Van Voorst : pp. i-xl, 1-362.
page(s): 264-266 [details]
additional source Van Beneden, E. (1897). Les Anthozoaires de la Plankton-Expedition = Die Anthozoen der Plankton-Expedition. Ergebnisse der in dem Atlantischen Ocean von Mitte Juli bis Anfang November 1889 ausgeführten Plankton-Expedition der Humboldt-Stiftung, II. K.e.. Lipsius & Tischer: Kiel. 222 + XVIII plates pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 42-52, 141, 142, 207, Pl. 1, 17 [details]
additional source Leloup, E. (1964). Larves de Cerianthaires. <em>Discovery reports.</em> 33: 251-307.
page(s): 256-257 [details]
additional source Nair, R. V. (1949). On two new ceriantharian larvae from the Madras plankton. <em>Records of the Indian Museum.</em> 47: 239-251.
page(s): 239, 243-247 [details]
additional source Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Leloup, E. (1931). Contribution à la répartition des Cérianthaires dans le sud de la Mer du Nord [Contribution on the distribution of Ceriantharia in the southern North Sea]. <i>Bull. Mus. royal d'Hist. Nat. Belg./Med. Kon. Natuurhist. Mus. Belg. 7(2)</i>: 1-10 (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 4-9 [details]
additional source Panikkar, N. K. (1947). Observations on the structure and developmental stages of a new species of Arachnactis from the Madras plankton. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles.</em> 11(9): 227-250.
page(s): 228, 231, 235, 238, 240, 246-249 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1924). Die larven der Ceriantharien, Zoantharien und Actiniarien der deutschen Tiefsee-expedition mit einen Nachtrag zu den Zoantharien. <em>Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898-1899.</em> 19: 339-476.
page(s): 344-345, 352-353, 360-361, 372-373, 386-388, 469 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1912). Ceriantharia. <em>Danish Ingolf-Expedition.</em> 5(3): 1-79.
page(s): 34-37, Pl. 4 figs. 1-3, Pl. 5 figs. 7-8 [details]
additional source Gravier, C. 1904. Recherches sur un cérianthaire pélagique du Golfe de Californie (Dactilactis benedeni, n.sp.) Annales des Sciences Naturelles (8)20: 253-294
page(s): 261, 276 [details]
additional source Fowler, G.H. 1897. Contributions to our knowledge of the plankton of the Faroe Channel. III. The later development of Arachnactis albida (M. Sars) with notes on Arachnactis bournei (sp.n.). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1897: 803-809, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30988024
page(s): 803-807, Pl. XLVII [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1912). Über Ceriantharien des Mittelmeers. <em>Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel.</em> 20(3): 356-391.
page(s): 366 [details]
additional source van Beneden, E. 1924. Travaux posthumes d' Edouard van Beneden sur les cérianthaires collationnés par Paul Cerfontaine.Archives de Biologie. vol hors serie (1923). 242 p.
page(s): 105, 117, 147, 154, 164-165, 173, 176-186 [details]
additional source Molodtsova T.N. 2004. Ceriantharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) in the Faroe area - Fróðskaparrit, 51: 292-297.
page(s): 292-296 [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Mello-Leitão C. F. (1919) Cerianthus brasiliensis - Um novo Cerianthoide Americano. Archivos da Escola Superior de Agricultura e Medicina Veterinaria 3, 35-39.
page(s): 36-37 [details]
additional source Leloup E., 1942. Larves de Cérianthaires appartenant a trois espèces nouvelles. Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 18 (34): 1-16
page(s): 2 [details]
additional source Andres, A. (1884). Le attinie. Volume primo, contente bibliografia, introduzione e specigrafia. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81386
page(s): 360 [details]
additional source Norman, A.M. (1869). Last report on dredging among the Shetland Isles. Part 2. On the Crustacea, Tunicata, Polyzoa, Echinodermata, Actinozoa, Hydrozoa, and Porifera. <em>In: Report of the thirty-eighth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; held in Norwich in August 1868. London 1869.</em> pp. 247–336, (Amphipoda, pp. 273–288) (Porifera, pp. 327-335)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29387922
page(s): 318 [details]
additional source Manuel, R. L. (1981). British Anthozoa. <em>London: Academic Press.</em> 241 pp. (Synopses of the British Fauna).
page(s): 69 [details]
additional source Gosse, P. (1858). XL.—Synopsis of the families, genera, and species of the British Actiniæ. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 1(6): 414-419., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222935808696950
page(s): 418 [details]
additional source Pennington, A. S. (1885). British zoophytes: an introduction to the Hydrozoa, Actinozoa, and Polyzoa fround in Great Britain, Ireland, and the Channel Islands. L. Reeve & Co., London, 363 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12208
page(s): 176 [details]
additional source Molodtsova, T. N. (2003). On Isarachnanthus from Central Atlantic and Caribbean region with notes on Isarachnactis lobiancoi (Carlgren, 1912). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 345: 249-255
page(s): 253 [details]
additional source Andres, A. (1883). Le Attinie (Monografia). Coi Tipi der Salviucci. Roma., volume 1 (Bibliografia, introduzione e specigrafia), pp. 460.
page(s): 360 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1934). Ceriantharia, Zoantharia and Actiniaria from the "Michael Sars" North Atlantic Deep-sea Expedition 1910. Report on the Scientific Results of the "Michael Sars" North Atlantic Deep-Sea Expedition 1910, 5(6): 1-27
page(s): 3 [details]
additional source Danielssen, D. C.; Koren, J. (1856). Nye Actinier [Actinies nouvelles]. Fr. D. Beyer. Bergen., volume 2, pp. 87-90
page(s): 87 [details]
additional source Pax, F. (1928). Anthozoa. Gustav Fischer. Jena., volume 4, pp. 190-237
page(s): 235-236 [details]
additional source Leloup, E. (1954). A propos d'Arachnactis albida M.Sars. Report on the Scientific Results of the "Michael Sars" North Atlantic Deep-Sea Expedition 1910, 5(10): 1-6
page(s): 3-6 [details]
additional source Leloup, E. (1929). Sur la prèsence de l'Arachnactis albida sars dans sud de la mer du nord. Annales de la Société Royale Zoologique de Belgique, 60, 22-23
page(s): 22 [details]
additional source Beneden, É. (1891). Recherches sur la développment des Arachnactis. Archives de Biologie, 9, 115-146
page(s): 129-130 [details]
additional source Leloup, E. (1960). Larves de Cérianthaires de Monaco et de Villefranche-sur-Mer1960. Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique (Monaco), (1185): 1-19
page(s): 1, 3-10, 16-18 [details]
additional source Bourne, G. C. (1919). Observations on Arachnactis albida M. Sars. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 64, N.S., (253): 27-65, Pl. III-V
page(s): 27-65, Pl. III-V [details]
additional source Leloup, E. (1962). Anthozoa Ceriantharia: larvae. Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la mer, Zooplankton, (93): 1-7
page(s): 3, 5, 7 [details]
additional source McMurrich, J. P. (1910). The genus Arachnactis. Journal of Experimental Zoology, 9, 159-168
page(s): 159-161, 163-167 [details]
additional source Molodtsova, T. N. (2000). Fauna ceriantariy atlanticheskogo okeana I sostav roda Cerianthus mirovoy fauny. Aftoreferat na soiskanie uchenoy stepeni kandidata biologicheskih nauk. Dialog-MGU. Moscow., pp. 21.
page(s): 13 [details]
additional source Pax, F. (1915). Hexacorallien der Murmanküste. Travaux de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Petrograd, 44(4): 167-180
page(s): 169 [rus.], 176-178 [ger.] [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1906). Die Actinien-Larven. Nordisches Plankton, chapter XI, pp. 65-89
page(s): 69-72 [details]
additional source McMurrich, J. P. (1910). Actiniaria of the Siboga expedition, Part I. Ceriantharia. Siboga-Expeditie Monographes, 10, Monograph XV a, 1-48
page(s): 13 [details]
additional source Picton, B. E. (1985). Anthozoans (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) new to Ireland and new records of some rarely recorded species. Irish Naturalists' Journal, 21(11): 484-488
page(s): 485 [details]
additional source Torelli, B. (1963). Due larve di Ceriantharia del Golfo di Napoli (Anthozoa). Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli, 33, 169-177
page(s): 169, 176 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1945). Polypdyr (Coelenterata) III. Koraldyr. Danmarks Fauna Udgivet af Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening, 51, 3-167
page(s): 70-72, 156 [details]
additional source Corbin, P. G.; Panikkar, N. K. (1942). The distribution of Arachnactis albida M. Sars in the Celtic Sea. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, xxv, 509-516
page(s): 509-516 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1942). Actiniaria Part II. Danish Ingolf-Expedition, 5, 12, 1-92
page(s): 70 [details]
additional source Andres, A. (1883). Le Attinie. Atti dell' Accademia de Lincei, 14, 3, Memorie, 211-673
page(s): 568 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Gosse, P. H. (1855). A manual of marine zoology for the British Isles. Part I. <em>John Van Voorst. London.</em> 203 pp. 355 figs.
page(s): 30, 188, 197 [details]
additional source Gosse, P.H., 1860. Actinologia Britannica. A history of the British sea-anemones and corals. London: Van Voorst : pp. i-xl, 1-362.
page(s): 264-266 [details]
additional source Van Beneden, E. (1897). Les Anthozoaires de la Plankton-Expedition = Die Anthozoen der Plankton-Expedition. Ergebnisse der in dem Atlantischen Ocean von Mitte Juli bis Anfang November 1889 ausgeführten Plankton-Expedition der Humboldt-Stiftung, II. K.e.. Lipsius & Tischer: Kiel. 222 + XVIII plates pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 42-52, 141, 142, 207, Pl. 1, 17 [details]
additional source Leloup, E. (1964). Larves de Cerianthaires. <em>Discovery reports.</em> 33: 251-307.
page(s): 256-257 [details]
additional source Nair, R. V. (1949). On two new ceriantharian larvae from the Madras plankton. <em>Records of the Indian Museum.</em> 47: 239-251.
page(s): 239, 243-247 [details]
additional source Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Leloup, E. (1931). Contribution à la répartition des Cérianthaires dans le sud de la Mer du Nord [Contribution on the distribution of Ceriantharia in the southern North Sea]. <i>Bull. Mus. royal d'Hist. Nat. Belg./Med. Kon. Natuurhist. Mus. Belg. 7(2)</i>: 1-10 (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 4-9 [details]
additional source Panikkar, N. K. (1947). Observations on the structure and developmental stages of a new species of Arachnactis from the Madras plankton. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles.</em> 11(9): 227-250.
page(s): 228, 231, 235, 238, 240, 246-249 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1924). Die larven der Ceriantharien, Zoantharien und Actiniarien der deutschen Tiefsee-expedition mit einen Nachtrag zu den Zoantharien. <em>Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898-1899.</em> 19: 339-476.
page(s): 344-345, 352-353, 360-361, 372-373, 386-388, 469 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1912). Ceriantharia. <em>Danish Ingolf-Expedition.</em> 5(3): 1-79.
page(s): 34-37, Pl. 4 figs. 1-3, Pl. 5 figs. 7-8 [details]
additional source Gravier, C. 1904. Recherches sur un cérianthaire pélagique du Golfe de Californie (Dactilactis benedeni, n.sp.) Annales des Sciences Naturelles (8)20: 253-294
page(s): 261, 276 [details]
additional source Fowler, G.H. 1897. Contributions to our knowledge of the plankton of the Faroe Channel. III. The later development of Arachnactis albida (M. Sars) with notes on Arachnactis bournei (sp.n.). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1897: 803-809, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30988024
page(s): 803-807, Pl. XLVII [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1912). Über Ceriantharien des Mittelmeers. <em>Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel.</em> 20(3): 356-391.
page(s): 366 [details]
additional source van Beneden, E. 1924. Travaux posthumes d' Edouard van Beneden sur les cérianthaires collationnés par Paul Cerfontaine.Archives de Biologie. vol hors serie (1923). 242 p.
page(s): 105, 117, 147, 154, 164-165, 173, 176-186 [details]
additional source Molodtsova T.N. 2004. Ceriantharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) in the Faroe area - Fróðskaparrit, 51: 292-297.
page(s): 292-296 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Mello-Leitão C. F. (1919) Cerianthus brasiliensis - Um novo Cerianthoide Americano. Archivos da Escola Superior de Agricultura e Medicina Veterinaria 3, 35-39.
page(s): 36-37 [details]
additional source Leloup E., 1942. Larves de Cérianthaires appartenant a trois espèces nouvelles. Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 18 (34): 1-16
page(s): 2 [details]
additional source Andres, A. (1884). Le attinie. Volume primo, contente bibliografia, introduzione e specigrafia. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81386
page(s): 360 [details]
additional source Norman, A.M. (1869). Last report on dredging among the Shetland Isles. Part 2. On the Crustacea, Tunicata, Polyzoa, Echinodermata, Actinozoa, Hydrozoa, and Porifera. <em>In: Report of the thirty-eighth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; held in Norwich in August 1868. London 1869.</em> pp. 247–336, (Amphipoda, pp. 273–288) (Porifera, pp. 327-335)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29387922
page(s): 318 [details]
additional source Manuel, R. L. (1981). British Anthozoa. <em>London: Academic Press.</em> 241 pp. (Synopses of the British Fauna).
page(s): 69 [details]
additional source Gosse, P. (1858). XL.—Synopsis of the families, genera, and species of the British Actiniæ. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 1(6): 414-419., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222935808696950
page(s): 418 [details]
additional source Pennington, A. S. (1885). British zoophytes: an introduction to the Hydrozoa, Actinozoa, and Polyzoa fround in Great Britain, Ireland, and the Channel Islands. L. Reeve & Co., London, 363 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12208
page(s): 176 [details]
additional source Molodtsova, T. N. (2003). On Isarachnanthus from Central Atlantic and Caribbean region with notes on Isarachnactis lobiancoi (Carlgren, 1912). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 345: 249-255
page(s): 253 [details]
additional source Andres, A. (1883). Le Attinie (Monografia). Coi Tipi der Salviucci. Roma., volume 1 (Bibliografia, introduzione e specigrafia), pp. 460.
page(s): 360 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1934). Ceriantharia, Zoantharia and Actiniaria from the "Michael Sars" North Atlantic Deep-sea Expedition 1910. Report on the Scientific Results of the "Michael Sars" North Atlantic Deep-Sea Expedition 1910, 5(6): 1-27
page(s): 3 [details]
additional source Danielssen, D. C.; Koren, J. (1856). Nye Actinier [Actinies nouvelles]. Fr. D. Beyer. Bergen., volume 2, pp. 87-90
page(s): 87 [details]
additional source Pax, F. (1928). Anthozoa. Gustav Fischer. Jena., volume 4, pp. 190-237
page(s): 235-236 [details]
additional source Leloup, E. (1954). A propos d'Arachnactis albida M.Sars. Report on the Scientific Results of the "Michael Sars" North Atlantic Deep-Sea Expedition 1910, 5(10): 1-6
page(s): 3-6 [details]
additional source Leloup, E. (1929). Sur la prèsence de l'Arachnactis albida sars dans sud de la mer du nord. Annales de la Société Royale Zoologique de Belgique, 60, 22-23
page(s): 22 [details]
additional source Beneden, É. (1891). Recherches sur la développment des Arachnactis. Archives de Biologie, 9, 115-146
page(s): 129-130 [details]
additional source Leloup, E. (1960). Larves de Cérianthaires de Monaco et de Villefranche-sur-Mer1960. Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique (Monaco), (1185): 1-19
page(s): 1, 3-10, 16-18 [details]
additional source Bourne, G. C. (1919). Observations on Arachnactis albida M. Sars. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 64, N.S., (253): 27-65, Pl. III-V
page(s): 27-65, Pl. III-V [details]
additional source Leloup, E. (1962). Anthozoa Ceriantharia: larvae. Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la mer, Zooplankton, (93): 1-7
page(s): 3, 5, 7 [details]
additional source McMurrich, J. P. (1910). The genus Arachnactis. Journal of Experimental Zoology, 9, 159-168
page(s): 159-161, 163-167 [details]
additional source Molodtsova, T. N. (2000). Fauna ceriantariy atlanticheskogo okeana I sostav roda Cerianthus mirovoy fauny. Aftoreferat na soiskanie uchenoy stepeni kandidata biologicheskih nauk. Dialog-MGU. Moscow., pp. 21.
page(s): 13 [details]
additional source Pax, F. (1915). Hexacorallien der Murmanküste. Travaux de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Petrograd, 44(4): 167-180
page(s): 169 [rus.], 176-178 [ger.] [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1906). Die Actinien-Larven. Nordisches Plankton, chapter XI, pp. 65-89
page(s): 69-72 [details]
additional source McMurrich, J. P. (1910). Actiniaria of the Siboga expedition, Part I. Ceriantharia. Siboga-Expeditie Monographes, 10, Monograph XV a, 1-48
page(s): 13 [details]
additional source Picton, B. E. (1985). Anthozoans (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) new to Ireland and new records of some rarely recorded species. Irish Naturalists' Journal, 21(11): 484-488
page(s): 485 [details]
additional source Torelli, B. (1963). Due larve di Ceriantharia del Golfo di Napoli (Anthozoa). Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli, 33, 169-177
page(s): 169, 176 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1945). Polypdyr (Coelenterata) III. Koraldyr. Danmarks Fauna Udgivet af Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening, 51, 3-167
page(s): 70-72, 156 [details]
additional source Corbin, P. G.; Panikkar, N. K. (1942). The distribution of Arachnactis albida M. Sars in the Celtic Sea. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, xxv, 509-516
page(s): 509-516 [details]
additional source Carlgren, O. (1942). Actiniaria Part II. Danish Ingolf-Expedition, 5, 12, 1-92
page(s): 70 [details]
additional source Andres, A. (1883). Le Attinie. Atti dell' Accademia de Lincei, 14, 3, Memorie, 211-673
page(s): 568 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Nontype MZUS N0 C. 1531, geounit United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From editor or global species database
Remark larva [details]
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (101 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Arachnactis albida)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To PESI
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (101 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Arachnactis albida)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To PESI
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
