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

Actinia prasina Gosse, 1860

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: groene paardeanemoon

Literature

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	Acuña, F. H.; Excoffon, A. C.; Ricci, L. (2007). Composition, biometry and statistical relationships between the cnidom and body size in the sea anemone Oulactis muscosa (Cnidaria: Actiniaria). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 87, 415-419
additional source	Monteiro, F. A.; Solé-Cava, A. M.; Thorpe, J. P. (1997). Extensive genetic divergence between populations of the common intertidal sea anemone Actinia equina from Britain, the Mediterranean and the Cape Verde Islands. Marine Biology. 129(3): 425-433.
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	Solé-Cava, A. M.; Thorpe, J. P. (1987). Further genetic evidence for the reproductive isolation of green sea anemone Actinia prasina (L.). Marine Ecology Progress Series, 38, 225-229
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	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	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	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	Ates, R. M. L. (1990). Pferde-Aktinien Arten und Verbreitung. Aquarium Frontiers, 24(254): 35-38
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	Ates, R. M. L. (1997). Bloemdieren: De Zeeanemonen En Hun Verwanten Van De Nederlandse Kust. C. Moerman. Zeeanjer., pp. 31.
additional source	Faasse, M. A. (1996). Diadumene luciae (Verrill, 1869) en Balanus amphitrite Darwin, 1854 bij de koelwateruitlaat te Borssele. Het Zeepaard, 56, 73-76
additional source	Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World.
additional source	Chintiroglou, C. C.; Christou, I.; Simsiridou, M. (1997). Biometric investigations on the cnidae of Aegean color morphs of Actinia equina mediterranea sensu Schmidt, 1972. Israel Journal of Zoology, 43, 377-384

Genbank

Citation

Rodríguez, E.; Fautin, D; Daly, M. (2025). World List of Actiniaria. Actinia prasina Gosse, 1860. 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:100806