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 Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Hexacorallia
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

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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