Anthopleura
Encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Arthropleura
, a giant centipede that lived during the Carboniferous
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Anthopleura is a genus
of sea anemone
s, of the family
Actiniidae
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Arthropleura
Arthropleura was a 0.3–2.6 metre long relative of centipedes and millipedes, native to the Upper Carboniferous of what is now northeastern North America and Scotland...
, a giant centipede that lived during the Carboniferous
Carboniferous
The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system that extends from the end of the Devonian Period, about 359.2 ± 2.5 Mya , to the beginning of the Permian Period, about 299.0 ± 0.8 Mya . The name is derived from the Latin word for coal, carbo. Carboniferous means "coal-bearing"...
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Anthopleura is a genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of sea anemone
Sea anemone
Sea anemones are a group of water-dwelling, predatory animals of the order Actiniaria; they are named after the anemone, a terrestrial flower. Sea anemones are classified in the phylum Cnidaria, class Anthozoa, subclass Zoantharia. Anthozoa often have large polyps that allow for digestion of larger...
s, of the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Actiniidae
Actiniidae
The Actiniidae is the largest family of sea anemones, to which most common, temperate, shore species belong. Most members of this family do not participate in symbioses with fishes. One exception is the so-called bubble anemone - Entacmaea quadricolor....
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Species
Species in this genus include:- Anthopleura africana (Carlgren, 1900)
- Anthopleura ambonensis (Kwietniewski, 1898)
- Anthopleura anjunae Den Hartog & Vennam, 1993
- Anthopleura anneae Carlgren, 1940
- Anthopleura artemisia (Pickering in Dana, 1846)
- Anthopleura atodai Yanagi & Daly, 2004
- Anthopleura aureoradiataAnthopleura aureoradiataAnthopleura aureoradiata, also known as the small brown sea anemone, is a small anemone about 10 mm wide in diameter and very brown in colour. The brownish tinge of its outer surface makes it much harder to distinguish and find unlike some of the others in the Cnidaria phylum...
(Stuckey, 1909) - Anthopleura ballii (Cocks, 1851)
- Anthopleura buddemeieri Fautin, 2005
- Anthopleura chinensis England, 1992
- Anthopleura dixoniana (Haddon & Shackleton, 1893)
- Anthopleura dowii Verrill, 1869
- Anthopleura elegantissima (Brandt, 1835)
- Anthopleura foxi Carlgren, 1927
- Anthopleura haddoni (Kwietniewski, 1898)
- Anthopleura handi Dunn, 1978
- Anthopleura hermaphroditica (Carlgren, 1899)
- Anthopleura incerta England, 1992
- Anthopleura inconspicua (Hutton, 1878)
- Anthopleura insignis Carlgren, 1940
- Anthopleura japonica Verrill, 1899
- Anthopleura kohli Carlgren, 1930
- Anthopleura krebsi Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860
- Anthopleura kurogane Uchida & Muramatsu, 1958
- Anthopleura listeri (Johnson, 1861)
- Anthopleura mariscali Daly & Fautin, 2004
- Anthopleura michaelseni (Pax, 1920)
- Anthopleura midori Uchida & Muramatsu, 1958
- Anthopleura minima (Stuckey & Walton, 1910)
- Anthopleura mortenseni Carlgren, 1941
- Anthopleura mortoni England, 1992
- Anthopleura nigrescens (Verrill, 1928)
- Anthopleura pallida Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1866
- Anthopleura panikkarii Parulekar, 1968
- Anthopleura qingdaoensis Pei, 1994
- Anthopleura rosea (Stuckey & Walton, 1910)
- Anthopleura sanctaehelenae Carlgren, 1941
- Anthopleura sola Pearse & Francis, 2000
- Anthopleura stellula (Hemprich & Ehrenberg in Ehrenberg, 1834)
- Anthopleura texaensis (Carlgren & Hedgpeth, 1952)
- Anthopleura thallia (Gosse, 1854)
- Anthopleura varioarmata Watzl, 1922
- Anthopleura waridi (Carlgren, 1900)
- Anthopleura xanthogrammicaAnthopleura xanthogrammicaAnthopleura xanthogrammica, or the Giant Green Anemone, is a species of intertidal sea anemones, of the family Actiniidae.Other common names: Green Surf Anemone, Giant Green Sea anemone, Green Anemone, Giant Tidepool Anemone, Solitary Anemone, and Rough Anemone...
(Brandt, 1835)