Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Anthozoa > Class Hexacorallia > Order Ceriantharia > Suborder Spirularia > Family Cerianthidae

Cerianthus Delle Chiaje, 1841

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Saccanthus*	Milne Edwards, 1857	synonym

Children

Cerianthus membranaceus (Gmelin, 1791)
Cerianthus vogti Danielssen, 1890

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: ceriantharian anemones; cerianthids; cylinder anemones sources: Gosner, K.L. (1979). A Field Guide to the Atlantic Seashore. Invertebrates and Seaweeds of the Atlantic Coast from the Bay of Fundy to Cape Hatteras. Wiley-Interscience, Boston. 329pp., figs. 1-72, pls. 1-64. [pdf copepods only].;Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Zylinderrosen

Literature

original description	Delle Chiaje, S. (1841-1844). Descrizione e notomia degli animali invertebrati della Sicilia citeriore osservati vivi negli anni 1822-1830. Batteli & Co., Naples. Parts 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	Menon, K. R. (1914). Note on the genus Anactinia. Records of the Indian Museum (A Journal of Indian Zoology), 10, 211-212
additional source	Annandale, N. (1915). Fauna of the Chilka Lake. The coelenterates of the lake, with an account of the Actiniaria of brackish water in the gangetic delta. Memoirs of the Indian Museum. 5(1): 65-114.
additional source	Haddon, A. C. (1888). On two species of Actiniae from the Mergui Archipelago, collected for the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, by Dr. John Anderson, F.R.S., Superintendent of the Museum. Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Zoology), 21(131): 247-255
additional source	Klinkhardt, W. (1914). Tier- und Pflanzenleban der Nordsee. Biologischen Anstalt auf Helgoland. Leipzig., edition 1, volume 2, pp. 30.
additional source	Peterson, C. H.; Black, R. (1986). Abundance patterns of infaunal sea anemones and their potential benthic prey in and outside seagrass patches on a western Australian sand shelf. Bulletin of Marine Science, 38(3): 498-511
additional source	Duerden, J. E. (1898). The Actiniaria around Jamaica. Journal of the Institute of Jamaica, 2, 449-465
additional source	Pax, F. (1915). Hexacorallien der Murmanküste. Travaux de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Petrograd, 44(4): 167-180
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additional source	Widersten B., 1998. On Isodactilactis borealis, a new species of cerianthid larvae. Helgoländer Meeresuntersuchungen 52: 111-114
additional source	Duerden, J. E. (1902). Report on the actinians of Porto Rico [Investigations of the aquatic resources and fisheries of Porto Rico by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer Fish Hawk in 1899]. Bulletin of the U.S. Fisheries Commission, 20, 2, 323-374
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	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Hartlaub C. (1894). Die Coelenteraten Helgolands. Vorläufiger Bericht. Wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen n. ser. 1(1): 161-206.
additional source	Southwell, T. (1906). Corrections and Additions. Part V.- Add the following list of Actiniaria identified by Mr. T. Southwell. W. A. Herdman (eds.). Royal Society. London, chapter correction, volume V, pp. 451-452
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	McMurrich, J. P. (1889). The Actiniaria of the Bahama Islands, W.I. Journal of Morphology, 3(1): 1-80
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	Andres, A. (1884). Le attinie. Volume primo, contente bibliografia, introduzione e specigrafia.
additional source	Rotvit L., Lützen J., Jespersen A. & Fox T. (2007). Mysella gregaria new species, a bivalve (Galeommatoidea: Montacutidae) from the Magellanic Region. The Nautilus 121(4): 191-200
additional source	Andres, A. (1883). Le Attinie (Monografia). Coi Tipi der Salviucci. Roma., volume 1 (Bibliografia, introduzione e specigrafia), pp. 460.
additional source	Menon, K. R. (1927). Subclass Zoantharia (except Scleractiniae). Bulletin of Madras Government Museum (Natural History Section), 1(1): 31-40
additional source	Scheltema, R. S. (1989). The eastern Pacific as a barrier to the dispersal of planktonic larvae of benthic invertebrates. Proceedings of the Twenty-first European Marine Biology Symposium, 435-445
additional source	Reed, S.A., 1971. Some common Coelenterates in Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii. In: H.M. Lenhoff, L. Muscatine & L.V. Davis, eds, Experimental Coelenterate Biology : 37-51.
additional source	Uchida H. 1979. Cerianthids (Anthozoa, Coelenterata) from Kii Region, Middle Japan. Memoirs of the National Science Museum (Tokyo) [Kokuritsu Kagaku Hakubutsukan] 12: 185-199
additional source	Torelli, B. (1963). Due larve di Ceriantharia del Golfo di Napoli (Anthozoa). Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli, 33, 169-177
additional source	Duerden, J. E. (1898). On the relations of certain Stichodactylinae to the Madreporaria. Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Zoology), 26, 635-653
additional source	Andres, A. (1883). Le Attinie. Atti dell' Accademia de Lincei, 14, 3, Memorie, 211-673
additional source	Child, C. M. (1903). Form regulation in Cerianthus. 2. The effect of position, size and other factors upon regeneration. Biological Bulletin, 6(1): 1-11
additional source	Carlgren, O. (1942). Actiniaria Part II. Danish Ingolf-Expedition, 5, 12, 1-92
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	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	Faurot, L. (1884). On the anatomy of Peachia hastata. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 13, 5, 417-418
additional source	Moseley H.N. 1877. On new forms of Actiniaria dredged in the deep sea; with a description of certain pelagic surface-swimming species.Transactions of the Linnean Society (London) Ser. 2. 1(5):295-305
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.
additional source	Agassiz, L. (1861). On some new actinoid polyps of the coast of the United States. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 7, 23-24
additional source	Mark, E. L. (1884). Selections from embryological monographs. III. Polyps. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 9(3): 5-52

Genbank

Citation

Molodtsova, T. (2025). World List of Ceriantharia. Cerianthus Delle Chiaje, 1841. 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:100782