Urticina

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.

Urticina
Urticina piscivora
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Anthozoa
Order: Actiniaria
Family: Actiniidae
Genus: Urticina
Ehrenberg, 1834 [1]
Species

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Species

The following species are listed in the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS):[2]

  • Urticina asiatica (Averincev, 1967)
  • Urticina clandestina Sanamyan N., Sanamyan K. & McDaniel, 2013
  • 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[3]
  • Urticina crassicornis (Müller, 1776) – Christmas anemone[4]
  • Urticina eques (Gosse, 1858) – white-spotted rose anemone or strawberry anemone
  • Urticina felina (Linnaeus, 1761) – northern red anemone
  • Urticina grebelnyi Sanamyan, N.P. & Sanamyan, K.E., 2006
  • Urticina macloviana (Lesson, 1830)
  • Urticina mcpeaki Hauswaldt & Pearson, 1999
  • Urticina piscivora (Sebens & Laakso, 1978) – fish-eating anemone and fish-eating urticina
  • Urticina tuberculata Cocks, 1850
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References
  1. Urticina Ehrenberg, 1834 World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2011-08-31.
  2. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Urticina Ehrenberg, 1834". marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
  3. Urticina coriacea (Red beaded anemone) Archived 2014-03-17 at the Wayback Machine, WSU BeachWatchers
  4. Urticina crassicornis (Christmas anemone) Archived 2010-06-02 at the Wayback Machine, WSU BeachWatchers


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