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

Stomphia (Gosse, 1859)

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Stomphia coccinea (Müller, 1776)
Stomphia polaris (Danielssen, 1890)

Literature

original description	Gosse P.H. (1859). Characters and descriptions of some new British sea-anemones. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 3(3): 46-50.
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	Daly, M.; Lipscomb, D. L.; Allard, M. W. (2002). A simple test: evaluating explanations for the relative simplicity of the Edwardsiidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Evolution, 56(3): 502-510
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	Pax, F. (1923). Antarktische Aktinien aus der Ausbeute des ?Pourquoi pas". Zoologische Jahrbücher Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere, 47(1-3): 1-28
additional source	Field, L. R. (1949). Sea Anemones and Corals of Beaufort, North Carolina. Duke University Press. Durham., pp. 39.
additional source	Carlgren, O. (1949). A survey of the Ptychodactiaria, Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria. Kungliga Svenska Vet- enskapsakadamiens Handlingar. 1: 1–121.
additional source	Dunn, D. F. (1982). Cnidaria. McGraw-Hill Book Company. New York and other cities., volume 1, pp. 669-706
additional source	Ates, R. M. L. (1989). Fishes that eat sea anemones, a review. Journal of Natural History, 23, 71-79
additional source	Fautin, D. G.; Kozloff, E. N.; Siebert, A. E. (1987). Phylum Cnidaria - Class Anthozoa. University of Washington Press. Seattle and London., pp. 68-78
additional source	Delage, Y.; Hérouard, E. (1901). Traité de zoologie concrète. Tome II – Deuxième partie. Les coelentérés. Paris: Schleicher Frères. 848 pp.
additional source	Haddon, A. C. (1898). The Actiniaria of Torres Straits. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, 6, 2, 393-520
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	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	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	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	Lawn, I. D.; Ross, D. M. (1982). The behavioural physiology of the swimming sea anemone Boloceroides mcmurrichi. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 216, 315-334
additional source	Dunn, D. F.; Chia, F. S.; Levine, R. (1980). Nomenclature of Aulactinia (= Bunodactis), with description of Aulactinia incubans n. sp. (Coelenterata: Actiniaria), an internally brooding sea anemone from Puget Sound. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 58(11): 2071-2080
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	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	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	Eash-Loucks, W. E.; Jewett, S. C.; Fautin, D. G.; Hoberg, M. K.; Chenelot, H. (2010). Ptychodactis aleutiensis , a new species of ptychodactiarian sea anemone (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actiniaria) from the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Marine Biology Research. 6(6): 570-578.

Genbank

Citation

Rodríguez, E.; Fautin, D; Daly, M. (2025). World List of Actiniaria. Stomphia (Gosse, 1859). 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:100716