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

Hormathia Gosse, 1859

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Hormathia alba (Andres, 1881)
Hormathia coronata (Gosse, 1858)
Hormathia digitata (O.F. Müller, 1776)
Hormathia marioni (Haddon, 1889)
Hormathia nodosa (Fabricius, 1780)

Literature

original description	Gosse P.H. (1859). Characters and descriptions of some new British sea-anemones. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 3(3): 46-50.
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	Dufaure, J. P. (1959). Une nouvelle actinie: Parastephanauge paxi, gen. nov., sp. nov. Bulletin de la Societé Zoologique de France, 84(1): 86-91
additional source	Carlgren, O. (1945). Further contributions to the knowledge of the cnidom in the Anthozoa especially in the Actiniaria. Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapets Handlingar, 56, N.F., (9): 1-24
additional source	Doumenc, D.; Chintiroglou, C.; Foubert, A. (1989). Variabilité du genre Telmatactis Gravier. Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat. Paris,. 11: 5-45.
additional source	Doumenc, D. A. (1975). Actinies bathyales et abyssales de l'océan Atlantique nord familles des Hormathiidae (genres Paracalliactis et Phelliactis) et des Actinostolidae (genres Actinoscyphia et Sicyonis). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris), 197, 3, (287): 157-204
additional source	Uchida, H.; Soyama, I. (2001). Sea Anemones in Japanese Waters. TBS. Japan., pp. 157.
additional source	den Hartog, J. C. (1994). Sea anemones of the Seychelles. J. van der Land (eds.). National Museum of Natural History. Leiden, chapter 6.2, volume 2, pp. 75-79
additional source	Doumenc D. & Foubert A. (1984). Microinformatique et taxonomie des actinies: Cle mondiale des genres. Annales de l'Institut Océanographique, 60, 1, 43-86.
additional source	Probert, P. Keith, Batham, Elizabeth J. and Wilson, John B. 1979. Epibenthic macrofauna off southeastern New Zealand and mid-shelf bryozoan dominance. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 13(3): 379-392.
additional source	Häussermann, V.; Försterra, G. (2005). Distribution patterns of Chilean shallow-water sea anemones (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actinaria, Corallimorpharia), with a discussion of the taxonomic and zoogeographic relationships between the actinofauna of ths South East Pacific, the South West Atlantic, and the Antarctic. Scientia Marina, 69 (Suppl. 2), 91-102
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Rodríguez, E.; Castorani, C.N.; Daly, M. (2008). Morphological phylogeny of the family Actinostolidae (Anthozoa : Actiniaria) with description of a new genus and species of hydrothermal vent sea anemone redefining the family Actinoscyphiidae. Invertebrate Systematics, 22(4), 439–452.
additional source	England, K. W. (1987). Certain Actiniaria (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from the Red Sea and tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), 53(4): 205-292
additional source	Rodríguez, E.; Daly, M. (2010). Phylogenetic relationships among deep-sea and chemosynthetic sea anemones: Actinoscyphyiidae and Actinostolidae (Actiniaria: Mesomyaria). Public Library of Science One, 5, 6, 1-8
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. Hormathia Gosse, 1859. 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:100757