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

Hormathia nodosa (Fabricius, 1780)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hormathia*	Gosse, 1859	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Actinauge nodosa*	Fabricius, 1780	synonym
*Actinia nodosa*	Fabricius, 1780	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: knobby anemone; nodular sea anemone; rugose anemone sources: Cairns, S.D., D.R. Calder, A. Brinckmann-Voss, C.B. Castro, P.R. Pugh, C.E. Cutress, W.C. Jaap, D.G. Fautin, R.J. Larson, G.R. Harbison, M.N. Arai & D.M. Opresko. (1991). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and canada. Cnidaria and Ctenophora. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda. 75: pp.;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].;van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).

French: anémone noduleuse

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	Zhiubikas, I. I. (1977). Some species of actinians of the western region of the Barents Sea and Franz Josef Land. Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. Zoological Institute. St. Petersburg., volume Explorations of the fauna of the seas XIV (XXII), pp. 106-125
additional source	Jarms, G.; Tiemann, H. (2004). Actinostola callosa (Verrill, 1882) (Actinostolidae, Anthozoa), a medusivorous sea anemone and its mass occurrence in the Lurefjord, Norway. Helgoländer Marine Research, 58, 15-17
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	Carlgren, O. (1942). Actiniaria Part II. Danish Ingolf-Expedition, 5, 12, 1-92
additional source	Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World.
additional source	Riemann-Zürneck, K. (1973). Actiniaria des Südwestatlantik I. Hormathiidae. Helgoländer Wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen, 25, 273-325
additional source	Sebens, K. P. (1998). Anthozoa: Actiniaria, Zoanthidea, Corallimorpharia, and Ceriantharia. National Marine Fisheries Service. Seattle., volume 141, pp. 1-67
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
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	Stephenson, T. A. (1920). On the classification of Actiniaria. Part I. -- Forms with acontia and forms with a mesogloeal sphincter. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. 64, 2, (256): 425-574.
additional source	Carlgren, O. (1949). A survey of the Ptychodactiaria, Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria. Kungliga Svenska Vet- enskapsakadamiens Handlingar. 1: 1–121.
additional source	Ates, R. M. L. (1989). Fishes that eat sea anemones, a review. Journal of Natural History, 23, 71-79
additional source	Carlgren, O. (1933). The Godthaab Expedition 1928 Zoantharia and Actiniaria. Meddelelser om Grønland, 79(8): 1-55
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	Carlgren, O. (1930). Actiniaria and Zoantharia. Andr. Fred. Høst and Søn. Copenhagen., volume 1, pp. 05-01
additional source	Carlgren, O. (1939). Actiniaria, Zoantharia, and Madreporaria. Zoology of Iceland, 2, 8, 1-20
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	Ates, R. M. L. (1997). Gastropods carrying actinians. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Coelenterate Biology, 11-20
additional source	Carlgren, O. (1934). Some Actiniaria from Bering Sea and Arctic waters. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 24(8): 348-353
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	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	Widersten, B. (1976). Ceriantharia, Zoanthidea, Corallimorpharia, and Actiniaria from the continental shelf and slope off the eastern coast of the United States. Fishery Bulletin, 74(4): 857-878
status source	Fautin, D. G. (2016). Catalog to families, genera, and species of orders Actiniaria and Corallimorpharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Zootaxa. 4145(1): 1-449.

Genbank

Citation

Rodríguez, E.; Fautin, D; Daly, M. (2025). World List of Actiniaria. Hormathia nodosa (Fabricius, 1780). 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:100954