Ceriantharia (Cnidaria) of the World: an annotated catalogue and key to species

By

Stampar, Sergio N.
Reimer, James D.
Maronna, Maximiliano M.
Lopes, Celine S. S.
Ceriello, Hellen
Santos, Thais B.
Acuña, Fabián H.
Morandini, André Carrara

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2020-7-23

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

952

Pages

1--63

Subjects

Cnidaria , Families , genera , identification key , tube-dwelling anemones

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.952.50617

 

Abstract

The diversity of Ceriantharia is known from studies formally describing species from the late 18th Century onwards. However, no nomenclators including a list and discussion of all valid species have been produced since a list discussed by Carlgren in 1912. The present nomenclator presents a complete list of adult species of Ceriantharia of the World, including a discussion on each species. It includes the three families (Arachnactidae, Botrucnidiferidae, Cerianthidae) and the currently accepted 54 species based on their adult form. This study serves as a presentation of the “state-of-the-art” list of species of Ceriantharia, and includes a species identification key to support taxonomic identification. Additional in-depth species-by-species investigations for almost all cerianthid species is still needed, as the information available for most of these species is quite superficial.