Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Anthozoa > Class Hexacorallia > Order Actiniaria > Suborder Enthemonae > Superfamily Actinioidea > Family Actiniidae

Anemonia Risso, 1827

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Anemonia melanaster (Verrill, 1901)
Anemonia rustica
Anemonia sargassensis Hargitt, 1908
Anemonia sulcata (Pennant, 1777)
Anemonia viridis (Forsskål, 1775)

Literature

original description	Risso, A. (1827). Histoire Naturelle des Principales Productions de l'Europe Méridionale et Particulièrement de Celles des Environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. Tome V. Paris: F.-G. Levrault. i-viii + 1-403 pp., [pls. 1-10], figs. 1-62.
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
additional source	Jourdan, E. (1895). Zoanthaires provenant des campagnes du yacht l'Hirondelle (Golfe de Gascogne, Açores, Terre-Neuve). Résultats des Campagnes Scientifiques du Prince Albert Ier de Monaco. 8(1): 1-36.
additional source	Goswami, B. C. B. (1992). Marine fauna of Digha coast of West Bengal, India. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 34(1 & 2): 115-137
additional source	Daly, M.M., Fautin D.G., Cappola V.A., 2003. Systematics of the Hexacorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139 3: 419-437.
additional source	Verrill, A. E. (1868-1870). Review of the corals and polyps of the west coast of America. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1, 6, 377-558.
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
additional source	Ottaway, J. R. (1975). Review of Actinia, Isactinia, and Cnidopus (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 9(1): 53-61
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. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Williams, R. B. (2012). Identification and dating of the editions and issues of "Le Attinie", a taxonomic monograph of the world's sea anemones (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia), by Angelo Andres. Zoological Bibliography, 2(2 and 3): 90-104
additional source	Parulekar, A. H. (1966). Cnidae in the actinians of Maharashtra. Journal of Biological Science, 9, 36-42
additional source	Andres, A. (1883). Le Attinie. Atti dell' Accademia de Lincei, 14, 3, Memorie, 211-673
additional source	Mitra, S. (2010). Cnidarian fauna in wetlands of West Bengal. Journal of Environment and Sociobiology, 7(2): 133-139
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
additional source	Pax, F. (1907). Vorarbeiten zu einer Revision der Familie Actiniidae. Königl. Universität Breslau. Breslau., pp. 87.
additional source	Carlgren, O. (1949). A survey of the Ptychodactiaria, Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria. Kungliga Svenska Vet- enskapsakadamiens Handlingar. 1: 1–121.
additional source	Chintiroglou, C. C.; Karalis, P. (2000). Biometric investigations on the cnidae of the Aegean colour morphs of Anemonia viridis. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 80, 543-544
additional source	Steele, R. E.; David, C. N.; Technau, U. (2010). A genomic view of 500 million years of cnidarian evolution. Trends in Genetics, 30(10): 1-7
additional source	Andres, A. (1883). Le Attinie (Monografia). Coi Tipi der Salviucci. Roma., volume 1 (Bibliografia, introduzione e specigrafia), pp. 460.
additional source	Andres, A. (1884). Le attinie. Volume primo, contente bibliografia, introduzione e specigrafia.
additional source	Wassilieff, A. (1908). Japanische Actinien. Abhandlungen des Mathematischen-Physikalischen Institutes der Kaiserlichen Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Suppl. 1(2): 1-49
additional source	Delphy, J. (1939). Présence sur la côte Française de la Manche de l'actinie Bolocera Tuediæ (Johnston)? - et quelques remarques sur d'autres anthozoaires. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris), 11, 2, (2): 267-270
additional source	Fautin, D. G.; Zelenchuk, T.; Raveendran, D. (2007). Genera of orders Actiniaria and Corallimorpharia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Hexacorallia), and their type species. Zootaxa. 1668: 183-244.
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
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.
additional source	Östman, C.; Kultima, J. R.; Wong, S. Y. G. (2010). Dart formation in nematocysts of the sea anemone Metridium senile (Linnaeus, 1761) (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Scientia Marina, 74(3): 499-510

Genbank

Citation

Rodríguez, E.; Fautin, D; Daly, M. (2025). World List of Actiniaria. Anemonia Risso, 1827. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:100695