Anthopleura

Not to be confused with Arthropleura, a giant centipede that lived during the Carboniferous.

Anthopleura
Anthopleura xanthogrammica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Class:	Anthozoa
Subclass:	Hexacorallia
Order:	Actiniaria
Suborder:	Nyantheae
Infraorder:	Thenaria
Family:	Actiniidae
Genus:	Anthopleura Duchassaing de Fonbressin & Michelotti, 1860
Species
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Anthopleura is a genus of sea anemones, of the family Actiniidae^[1].

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 aureoradiata (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 xanthogrammica (Brandt, 1835)

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  Aggregating anemone (A. elegantissima), Puget Sound

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  Giant green anemone (A. xanthogrammica) at the New England Aquarium

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  Starburst Anemone (A. sola), Northern California

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  Moonglow anenome (A. artemisia)

References

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