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

Actinostola Verrill, 1883

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Actinostola abyssorum (Danielssen, 1890)
Actinostola callosa (Verrill, 1882)

Literature

original description	Verrill, A.E. (1883). Report on the Anthozoa, and on some additional species dredged by the "Blake" in 1877-1879, and by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Fish Hawk" in 1880-82. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard. 11: 1-72, plates 1-8.
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	López-González P. J.; Rodríguez E.; Gili J.-M.; Segonzac M. (2003). New records on sea anemones (Anthozoa: Actiniaria) from hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. Zoologische Verhandelingen. 345: 215-243.
additional source	Parry, G. (1952). The Actiniaria of New Zealand. A check-list of recorded and new species. A review of the literature and a key to the commoner forms. Part 2. Records of the Canterbury Museum. 6(2): 121-141.
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	Parry, G. (1951). The Actiniaria of New Zealand. A check-list of recorded and new species a review of the literature and a key to the commoner forms Part I. Records of the Canterbury Museum, 6(1): 83-119
additional source	Carlgren, O. (1949). A survey of the Ptychodactiaria, Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria. Kungliga Svenska Vet- enskapsakadamiens Handlingar. 1: 1–121.
additional source	Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. :59-101.
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.
additional source	Riemann-Zürneck, K. (1997). The deep-sea anemones Bathyphellia margaritacea and Daontesia porcupina sp. nov. with comments on the family Bathyphelliidae. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 77(02): 361-374.
additional source	Dunn, D. F. (1982). Cnidaria. McGraw-Hill Book Company. New York and other cities., volume 1, pp. 669-706
additional source	Field, L. R. (1949). Sea Anemones and Corals of Beaufort, North Carolina. Duke University Press. Durham., pp. 39.
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	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	Sanamyan, N.P. & Sanamyan, K.E. (2007). Deep-water Actiniaria from East Pacific hydrothermal vents and cold seep. Invertebrate Zoology. 4(1): 83-102.
additional source	Klyshko, E. V.; Ilyna, A. P.; Monastyrnaya, M. M.; Burtseva, Y. V.; Kostina, E. E.; Zykova, T. A.; Menzorova, N. I.; Kozlovskaya, E. P. (2003). Biologically active polypeptides and hydrolytic enzymes in sea anemones of northern temperate waters. Russian Journal of Marine Biology, 29(3): 161-166
additional source	Haddon, A. C. (1898). The Actiniaria of Torres Straits. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, 6, 2, 393-520
additional source	Riemann-Zürneck, K. (1973). Actiniaria des Südwestatlantik I. Hormathiidae. Helgoländer Wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen, 25, 273-325
additional source	Doumenc D. & Van-praet M. (1988). Deep-sea anemones from a hydrothermal vent area in the East Pacific. Oceanologica Acta. Volume spécial, 8, 61-68.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
additional source	Zamponi, M. O. (1984). Los primeros estadios del desarrollo en Actinostola crassicornis (Hertwig, 1882) (Actiniaria: Actinostolidae). Neotropica, 30, 83, 111-120
additional source	Ross, D. M.; Wada, T. (1975). The behavior of actinians in symbiotic associations with pagurids in Japan. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 53(12): 1735-1748
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.
additional source	Zelnio, K.A.; Rodríguez, E.; Daly, M. (2009). Hexacorals (Anthozoa: Actiniaria, Zoanthidea) from hydrothermal vents in the south-western Pacific. Mar. Biol. Res., 5(6): 547-571.
additional source	Dawson EW. (1992). The Coelenterata of the New Zealand region: a handlist for curators, students and ecologists. Occasional papers of the Hutton Foundation, New Zealand. 1: 1-68.
additional source	Karalis, P.; Chintiroglou, C. C. (1997). Biometric investigations on the cnidae of the rustica-color variety of the sea anemone Anemonia viridis (Förskal, 1775). Israel Journal of Zoology, 43, 385-390

Genbank

Citation

Rodríguez, E.; Fautin, D; Daly, M. (2025). World List of Actiniaria. Actinostola Verrill, 1883. 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:100709