Urticina
| Urticina | |
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| Urticina piscivora | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Anthozoa |
| Order: | Actiniaria |
| Family: | Actiniidae |
| Genus: | Urticina Ehrenberg, 1834 [1] |
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Urticina is a genus of relatively large and often colorful sea anemones in the family Actiniidae from the North Pacific, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.
Species
The following species are listed in the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS):[1]
- Urticina asiatica (Averincev, 1967)
- Urticina coccinea (Verrill, 1866)
- Urticina columbiana Verrill, 1922 – crusty red anemone, columbia sand anemone, sand anemone, and sand-rose anemone
- Urticina coriacea (Cuvier, 1798) – red beaded anemone[2]
- Urticina crassicornis (Müller, 1776) – Christmas anemone[3]
- Urticina eques (Gosse, 1858) (nomen dubium)
- Urticina felina (Linnaeus, 1761) – northern red anemone or dahlia anemone
- Urticina grebelnyi Sanamyan, N.P. & Sanamyan, K.E., 2006
- Urticina lessonii Duchassaing, 1850
- Urticina lofotensis (Danielssen, 1890) – white-spotted rose anemone[4] or strawberry anemone
- Urticina macloviana (Lesson, 1830)
- Urticina mcpeaki Hauswaldt & Pearson, 1999
- Urticina piscivora (Sebens & Laakso, 1978)
- Urticina tuberculata Cocks, 1850
References
- 1 2 Urticina Ehrenberg, 1834 World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2011-08-31.
- ↑ Urticina coriacea (Red beaded anemone), WSU BeachWatchers
- ↑ Urticina crassicornis (Christmas anemone), WSU BeachWatchers
- ↑ Urticina lofotensis (White spotted anemone), WSU BeachWatchers
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