Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Anthozoa > Class Hexacorallia > Order Actiniaria > Suborder Enthemonae > Superfamily Actinostoloidea > Family Capneidae > Genus Capnea

Capnea sanguinea Forbes, 1841

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Capnea*	Forbes, 1841	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Aureliana heterocera*	(Thompson, 1853)	orthographic variant
*Aureliania heterocera*	(Thompson, 1853)	synonym

Literature

original description	Forbes E. (1841). Contributions to British actinology. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 7: 81-85, pl. 1.
basis of record	Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World.
additional source	Milne Edwards H,. (1857). Histoire naturelle des coralliaires, ou polypes proprement dits. 1. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 326 pp.
additional source	Landsborough, D. (1852). A popular history of British zoophytes, or corallines. London :Reeve and Co. 404pp.
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	Andres, A. (1883). Le Attinie (Monografia). Coi Tipi der Salviucci. Roma., volume 1 (Bibliografia, introduzione e specigrafia), pp. 460.
additional source	Delage, Y.; Hérouard, E. (1901). Traité de zoologie concrète. Tome II – Deuxième partie. Les coelentérés. Paris: Schleicher Frères. 848 pp.
additional source	Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1851). Monographie des polypiers fossiles des terrains palaeozoïques, précédée d'un tableau général de la classification des polypes. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Archives. 5: 1–502, 20 pls.
additional source	Dunn, D.F. (1983). Some Antarctic and sub-Antarctic sea anemones (Coelenterata: Ptychodactiaria and Actiniaria). Antarctic Research Series 39: 1-67.
additional source	Gosse, P. H. (1855). A manual of marine zoology for the British Isles. Part I. John Van Voorst. London. 203 pp. 355 figs.
additional source	Andres, A. (1884). Le attinie. Volume primo, contente bibliografia, introduzione e specigrafia.
additional source	Andres, A. (1883). Le Attinie. Atti dell' Accademia de Lincei, 14, 3, Memorie, 211-673
additional source	Cocks, W. P. (1851). Actiniæ (or sea-anemones), procured in Falmouth and its neighbourhood, by W. P. Cocks, Esq., from 1843-1849. Annual Report of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, 19, 3-11
additional source	Danielssen, D. C.; Koren, J. (1856). Nye Actinier [Actinies nouvelles]. Fr. D. Beyer. Bergen., volume 2, pp. 87-90
additional source	Stephens, J. (1905). A list of Irish Coelenterata, including the Ctenophora. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 25: 25-92.
additional source	Pennington, A. S. (1885). British zoophytes: an introduction to the Hydrozoa, Actinozoa, and Polyzoa fround in Great Britain, Ireland, and the Channel Islands. L. Reeve & Co., London, 363 pp.
additional source	Gosse, P.H., 1860. Actinologia Britannica. A history of the British sea-anemones and corals. London: Van Voorst : pp. i-xl, 1-362.
additional source	Cocks, W. P. (1850). Contributions to the fauna of Falmouth. 17th Rep. Cornw. Polyt. Soc., 1849 : 38-102 (72-75).
additional source	Gosse, P. H. (1855). Description of Peachia hastata, a new genus and species of the class Zoophyta, with observations on the family Actiniadae. Transactions of the Linnean Society (London), 21, 267-276
additional source	Johnston, G. (1847). A history of British zoophytes. Van Voorst, Second edition, London. pp. vol. 1, pp. i-xvi, 1-488, vol. 2, plates 1-74. Van Voorst, London. 1: 1-499, figs 1-87; vol. 2: pls 1-74.
additional source	Andrews, W. (1872). On the inhabitants of the rock-pools and caves of Dingle Bay. Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Dublin, 6, 1, 16-19

Genbank

Citation

Rodríguez, E.; Fautin, D; Daly, M. (2025). World List of Actiniaria. Capnea sanguinea Forbes, 1841. 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:410805