Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Cnidaria

Anthozoa Ehrenberg, 1834

Rank: Class
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Hexacorallia Haeckel, 1896
Octocorallia

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Dutch: bloemdieren; zeeanemonen en koralen sources: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium;de Ruijter, E.; Schoenmaker, A. (Ed.) (1989). Zeeboek [The sea book]. 2nd revised ed. Jeugdbondsuitgeverij JBU / Stichting Uitgeverij KNNV: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5107-007-1. 238 pp.
 English: anthozoans sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 English-United States: anthozoans sources: Charles Hussey
 Swedish: koralldjur

Literature

original description

Ehrenberg, C. G. 1834. Beiträge zur physiologischen Kenntniss der Corallenthiere im allgemeinen, und besonders des rothen Meeres, nebst einem Versuche zur physiologischen Systematik derselben. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1: 225-380.

basis of record

Daly, M., M.R. Brugler, P. Cartwright, A.G. Collins, M.N. Dawson, D.G. Fautin, S.C. France, C.S. McFadden, D.M. Opresko, E. Rodriquez, S.L. Romano, J.L. Stake. (2007). The phylum Cnidaria: A review of phylogenetic patterns and diversity 300 years after Linnaeus. Zootaxa (1668): 127-182

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External Links

GenBank (10 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
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Citation

Hoeksema, B. (2014). Anthozoa. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1292

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, brackish, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2013-09-07 by Bert Hoeksema

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