Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Anthozoa > Class Hexacorallia > Order Actiniaria > Suborder Enthemonae > Superfamily Metridioidea > Family Hormathiidae > Genus Allantactis

Allantactis parasitica Danielssen, 1890

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Allantactis*	Danielssen, 1890	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: parasitic sea anemone sources: National General Status Working Group [Groupe de travail national sur la situation générale]. (2017). Standardized Common Names for Wild Species in Canada [Noms communs normalisés pour les espèces sauvages au Canada].

French: anémone parasite

Literature

original description	Danielssen D.C. (1890). Actinida. In: Den Norske Nordhavs-Expedition 1876–1878. Zoologi. Grøndahl & Søns, Christiania.
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	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	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	Kwietniewski, C. R. (1898). Actiniaria von Ost-Spitzbergen, nach den Sammlungen von Prof. Dr. W. Kükenthal und Dr. A. Walter. Zoologische Jahrbücher Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere, 11, 121-140
additional source	Pax, F. (1922). Untersuchungsfahrt des Reichsforschungsdampfers "Poseidon" in das Barentsmeer im Juni und Juli 1913, Zoantharien und Actiniarien. Wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen, abteilung Helgoland, 13(2): 249-254
additional source	Carlgren, O. (1932). Die Ceriantharien, Zoantharien und Actiniarien des arktischen Gebietes. Eine Zusammenstellung der arktischen Tierformen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Spitzbergen-Gebietes auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Deutschen Expedition in das Nördliche Eismeer im Jahre 1898. Gustav Fischer.Jena. 255-266.
additional source	Ross, D. M.; Kikuchi, T. (1976). Some symbiotic associations between anemones and gastropods in Japan. Publications from the Amakusa Marine Biological Laboratory, 4(1): 41-50
additional source	Gravier, C. (1918). Note preliminaire sur les Hexactiniaires recueillis au cours des croisieres de la Princesse-Alice et de l'Hirondelle de 1888 a 1913 inclusivement. Bull. Inst. Oceanogr., Monaco. 346:1-24.
additional source	Carlgren, O. (1902). Actiniaria der Olga-Expedition. Wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen, Kommission zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung der deutschen Meere in Kiel, Biologischen Anstalt auf Helgoland. 5(1): 33–57.
additional source	Gravier, C. (1922). Hexactinidés provenant des campagnes des yachts Hirondelle I et II et Princesse-Alice I et II (1888-1913). Imprimerie de Monaco. Monaco., volume 63, pp. 104
additional source	Riemann-Zürneck, K. (1994). Taxonomy and ecological aspects of the Subarctic sea anemones Hormathia digitata, Hormathia nodosa and Allantactis parasitica (Coelenterata, Actiniaria). Ophelia, 39(3): 197-224
additional source	Carlgren, O. (1928). Ceriantharier, Zoantharier och Actiniarier. Meddelelser om Grønland, 23 Suppl., 253-308
additional source	Carlgren, O. (1939). Actiniaria, Zoantharia, and Madreporaria. Zoology of Iceland, 2, 8, 1-20
additional source	Grebelny, S. D. (1980). The northern representatives of the genus Hormathia (Hormathiidae, Actinaria). Explorations of the Fauna of the Seas, 25 On the progress in taxonomy of marine invertebrates(33): 12-28
additional source	Carlgren, O. (1895). Jahresberichte für 1889, 1890, und 1891 über die Anthozoen. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 61(2): 235-298
additional source	Carlgren, O. (1933). The Godthaab Expedition 1928 Zoantharia and Actiniaria. Meddelelser om Grønland, 79(8): 1-55
additional source	Uchida, H.; Soyama, I. (2001). Sea Anemones in Japanese Waters. TBS. Japan., pp. 157.
additional source	Ates, R. M. L. (1997). Gastropods carrying actinians. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Coelenterate Biology, 11-20
additional source	Fautin, D. G.; Daly, M.; Cappola, V. A. (2005). Sea anemones (Cnidaria: Actiniaria) of the Faroe Islands: a preliminary list and biogeographic context. Annales Societatis Scientiarum Færoensis, 41, 77-87
additional source	Mercier, A.; Hamel, J. (2008). Nature and role of newly described symbiotic associations between a sea anemone and gastropods at bathyal depths in the NW Atlantic. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 358, 57-69
additional source	Ates, R. M. L. (1998). Observations on the symbiosis between Colus gracilis (Da Costa, 1778) (Mollusca: Gastropoda) and Hormathia digitata (O.F. Müller, 1776) (Cnidaria: Actiniaria). Zoologische Verhandelingen, 323, 257-262
additional source	Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World.
additional source	Davenport, D. (1955). Specificity and Behavior in Symbioses. The Quarterly. Review of Biology. 30(1): 29-46.
additional source	Pax, F. (1915). Hexacorallien der Murmanküste. Travaux de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Petrograd, 44(4): 167-180
additional source	Carlgren, O. (1942). Actiniaria Part II. Danish Ingolf-Expedition, 5, 12, 1-92
additional source	Grebelny, S. D. (1980). Distribution of the Actiniae in the Arctic. Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Leningrad and Murmamsk., pp. 20-33
additional source	Broch, H., 1936. Spongia, Coelenterata, and Actiniaria. Norwegian North Polar Exped. with the "Maud", 1918-1925, Sci. Res. 5 18: 1-5.
additional source	Carlgren, O. (1913). Actiniaria. Rep. 2nd. Norw. Arctic Exped. Fram 4(31):3-6. (13-xii-1913, Copepoda: 4)
additional source	Balss, H. (1924). Über Anpassungen und Symbiose der Paguriden. Eine zusammenfassende übersicht. Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Ökologie der Tiere, 1, 752-792
additional source	Sebens, K. P. (1998). Anthozoa: Actiniaria, Zoanthidea, Corallimorpharia, and Ceriantharia. National Marine Fisheries Service. Seattle., volume 141, pp. 1-67
additional source	Carlgren, O. (1949). A survey of the Ptychodactiaria, Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria. Kungliga Svenska Vet- enskapsakadamiens Handlingar. 1: 1–121.

Genbank

Citation

Rodríguez, E.; Fautin, D; Daly, M. (2025). World List of Actiniaria. Allantactis parasitica Danielssen, 1890. 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:100933