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

Actinia fragacea Tugwell, 1856

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Actinia*	Linnaeus, 1767	accepted genus name
*Actinea*		orthographic variant
*Priapus*	Forsskål, 1775	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: aardbeianemoon sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: strawberry anemone sources: van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).

German: Erdbeeranemone; Erdbeerrose

Literature

original description	Tugwell, G. (1856). A Manual of the Sea-Anemones Commonly Found on the English Coast. John Van Voorst. London., pp. 123.
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	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	Daly, M.; Chaudhuri, A.; Gusmão, L.; Rodríguez, E. (2008). Phylogenetic relationships among sea anemones (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actiniaria). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 48, 292-301
additional source	Chintiroglou, C. C.; Stefanidou, D. (1996). Notes on the sea-anemone Actinia striata (Rizzi, 1907) (Anthozoa, Cnidaria): Taxonomy, habitat, distribution. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 2, 339-346
additional source	Teissier, G. (1965). Inventaire de la faune marine de Roscoff. Station Biologique de Roscoff. Roscoff., pp. 62.
additional source	Ates, R. M. L. (1990). Pferde-Aktinien Arten und Verbreitung. Aquarium Frontiers, 24(254): 35-38
additional source	Allcock, L. A.; Watts, P. C.; Thorpe, J. P. (1998). Divergence of nematocysts in two colour morphs of the intertidal beadlet anemone Actinia equina. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 78, 821-828
additional source	Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World.
additional source	den Hartog, J.C. & Ocaña, O. (2003). A new endemic Actinia species (Actiniaria: Actiniidae) from the central Macaronesian Archipelagos. Zoologische Mededelingen. 77: 229-244.
additional source	Scott, A.; Harrison, P. L. (2007). Embryonic and larval development of the host sea anemones Entacmaea quadricolor and Heteractis crispa. Biological Bulletin, 213, 110-121
additional source	Schama, R.; Solé-Cava, A. M.; Thorpe, J. P. (2004). Genetic divergence between east and west Atlantic populations of Actinia spp. sea anemones (Cnidaria: Actiniidae). Marine Biology, 146, 435-443
additional source	Carter, M. A.; Thorpe, J. P. (1981). Reproductive, genetic and ecological evidence that Actinia equina var. Mesembryanthemum and var. fragacea are not conspecific. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 61, 79-93
additional source	Teissier, G., 1950. Inventaire de la faune marine de Roscoff. Cnidaires et cténaires. Trav. biol. Roscoff. n. ser. suppl. 1: 1-43.
additional source	Haylor, G. S.; Thorpe, J. P.; Carter, M. A. (1984). Genetic and ecological differentiation between sympatric colour morphs of the common intertidal sea anemone Actinia equina. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 16, 281-289
additional source	den Hartog J.C., Ates R.M.L. (2011). Actiniaria from Ria de Arosa, Galicia, northwestern Spain, in the Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis, Leiden. Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden. 85 (2): 11-53.
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Manuel, R. L. (1981). British Anthozoa. London: Academic Press. 241 pp. (Synopses of the British Fauna).
additional source	Ramil Blanco, F.; Pulpeiro, E. F. (1990). Inventario de los antozoos de Galicia. A checklist of the Anthozoa from Galicia. Boletin de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 86(1-4): 17-30
additional source	Schama, R.; Mitchell, M.; Solé-Cava, A. M. (2011). Actinia ebhayiensis sp. nov., a new species of sea anemone (Anthozoa: Actiniaria: Actiniidae) from South Africa. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 92(05): 885-894.
additional source	Watts, P. C.; Allcock, L. A.; Lynch, S. M.; Thorpe, J. P. (2000). An analysis of the nematocysts of the beadlet anemone Actinia equina and the green sea anemone Actinia prasina. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 80, 719-724
additional source	Eckelbarger, K. J.; Hand, C. H.; Uhlinger, K. R. (2008). Ultrastructural features of the trophonema and oogenesis in the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis (Edwardsiidae). Invertebrate Biology, 127(4): 3810395
additional source	Daly, M.; Gusmão, L.; Reft, A. J.; Rodríguez, E. (2010). Phylogenetic signal in mitochondrial and nuclear markers in sea anemones (Cnidaria, Actiniaria). Integrative and Comparative Biology, 50(3): 371-388
additional source	Bonnenfant, J. (1960). Recherches sur l'évolution larvaire et la variation physiologique du cnidome chez Actinia equina. Bulletin de la Societé Zoologique de France, 85(2-3): 157-165
additional source	Ates, R. M. L. (1997). Bloemdieren: De Zeeanemonen En Hun Verwanten Van De Nederlandse Kust. C. Moerman. Zeeanjer., pp. 31.

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Citation

Rodríguez, E.; Fautin, D; Daly, M. (2025). World List of Actiniaria. Actinia fragacea Tugwell, 1856. 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:100805