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

Anemonia sargassensis Hargitt, 1908

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Anemonia*	Risso, 1827	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: sargassum 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. (2002). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Cnidaria and Ctenophora. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, Bethesda, Maryland. 28:1-115.

German: Sargassum-Anemone

Literature

original description	Hargitt, C.W., 1908. Notes on a few coelenterates of Woods Hole. Biol. Bull. mar. biol. Lab. Woods Hole 14 2: 95-120.
basis of record	den Hartog, J. C. & van der Land, J. (2000-2007). As a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms.
additional source	Corrêa, D. D. (1964). Corallimorpharia e Actiniaria do Atlantico Oeste Tropical. Universidade de São Paulo (Dissertation). São Paulo., pp. 139.
additional source	Dube, V. M. C. (1978). Sobre anemonas-do-mar (Ordem Actiniaria) do estado da Bahia. Atas Sociedade de Biologia do Rio de Janeiro, 19, 31-32
additional source	Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World.
additional source	Sebens, K. P. (1998). Anthozoa: Actiniaria, Zoanthidea, Corallimorpharia, and Ceriantharia. National Marine Fisheries Service. Seattle., volume 141, pp. 1-67
additional source	Varela, C. (2002). Nuevas consignaciones de actiniarios (Anthozoa: Actiniaria) para aguas cubanas. Revista de Investigaciones Marinas, 23, 3, 233-234
additional source	Britton, J.C. & B. Morton, 1989. Shore ecology of the Gulf of Mexico : i-viii, 1-387.
additional source	Amado, E. M. (2007). Cell volume regulation of two sea anemones under anisosmotic stress. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A, 148, S120-S123
additional source	Corrêa, D. D. (1973). Sobre anêmonas-do-mar (Actiniaria) do Brasil. Boletim de Zoologia e Biologia Marinha, N.S., (30): 457-468
additional source	Fisher, E. (1976). Redescription of the sea anemone Bunodeopsis pelagica. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands, 50(166): 103-119
additional source	Hargitt, C. W. (1912). The Anthozoa of the Woods Hole region. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, 32(788): 221-254
additional source	Bigger, C. H. (1980). Interspecific and intraspecific acrorhagial aggressive behavior among sea anemones: a recognition of self and not-self. Biological Bulletin, 159, 117-134
additional source	Fautin, D. G.; Daly, M. (2009). Actiniaria, Corallimorpharia, and Zoanthidea (Cnidaria) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 349-357. in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico-Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. A&M University Press, College Station, Texas.
additional source	Zamponi, M. O.; Belém, M. J. D.; Schlenz, E.; Acuña, F. H. (1998). Distribution and some ecological aspects of Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria from shallow waters of the South American Atlantic coasts. Physis (Buenos Aires), 55, 31-45
additional source	Amaral, F. D.; Ramos, C. A. C.; Leão, Z. M. A. N.; Kikuchi, R. K. P.; Lima, K. K. M.; Longo, L.; Cordeiro, R. T. S.; Lira, S. M. A.; Vasconcelos, S. L. (2009). Checklist and morphometry of benthic cnidarians from the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Brazil. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 50, 277-290
additional source	Pires, D. de Oliveira; Castro, C. B.; Migotto, Á. E.; Marques, A. C. (1992). Cnidários bentônicos do Arquipélago de Fernando de Noronha, Brasil. Boletim do Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro), N.S., (354): 1-21
additional source	Carlgren, O.; Hedgepeth, J. W. A. (1952). Actinaria, Zoantharia, and Ceriantharia from shallow water in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Publications of the Institute of Marine Science. 2, 141-172.
additional source	Amaral, F. D.; Hudson, M. M.; da Silveira, F. L.; Migotto, A. E.; Pinto, S. M.; Longo, L. (2002). Cnidarians of Saint Peter and St. Paul Archipelago, Northeast Brazil. Proceedings of the Ninth International Coral Reef Symposium. 1, 567-571.
additional source	Hedgpeth, J. W. (1954). Anthozoa: the anemones. Fisheries Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service (U.S.), 55 (Gulf of Mexico: Its Origin, Waters, and Marine Life), 285-290
additional source	Bigger, C. H. (1982). The cellular basis of the aggressive acrorhagial response of sea anemones. Journal of Morphology, 173, 259-278
additional source	Castro, C. B.; Echeverría, C. A.; Pires, D. de Oliveira; Mascarenhas, B. J. de A.; Freitas, S. G. (1995). Distribuição de Cnidaria e echinodermata no infralitoral de costões rochosos de arraial do cabo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Revista Brasileira de Biologia (Rio de Janeiro), 55(3): 471-480
additional source	Field, L. R. (1949). Sea Anemones and Corals of Beaufort, North Carolina. Duke University Press. Durham., pp. 39.

Genbank

Citation

Rodríguez, E.; Fautin, D; Daly, M. (2025). World List of Actiniaria. Anemonia sargassensis Hargitt, 1908. 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:283333