| Anthopleura | |
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| Anthopleura xanthogrammica | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Hexacorallia |
| Order: | Actiniaria |
| Family: | Actiniidae |
| Genus: | Anthopleura Duchassaing de Fonbressin & Michelotti, 1860 [1] |
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Anthopleura is a genus of sea anemones, of the family Actiniidae.
Anthopleura is Greek; anthōs, flowers and pleura, ribs.
According to the World Register of Marine Species, this genus includes: [2]
| Image | Species |
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| 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 asiatica Uchida & Muramatsu, 1958 | |
| Anthopleura atodai Yanagi & Daly, 2004 | |
| Anthopleura ballii (Cocks, 1851) | |
| Anthopleura buddemeieri Fautin, 2005 | |
| Anthopleura chinensis England, 1992 | |
| Anthopleura dixoniana (Haddon & Shackleton, 1893) | |
| Anthopleura dowii Verrill, 1869 | |
 | Aggregating anemone (Anthopleura elegantissima) (Brandt, 1835) |
| Anthopleura foxi Carlgren, 1927 | |
| Anthopleura fuscoviridis Carlgren, 1949 | |
| 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 mariscali Daly & Fautin, 2004 | |
 | Long-tentacled anemone (Anthopleura michaelseni) (Pax, 1920) |
| 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 radians Spano & Häussermann, 2017 | |
 | Anthopleura rosea (Stuckey & Walton, 1910) |
| Anthopleura sanctaehelenae Carlgren, 1941 | |
 | Anthopleura sola Pearse & Francis, 2000 |
| Anthopleura stellula (Hemprich & Ehrenberg in Ehrenberg, 1834) | |
| Anthopleura stimpsonii Verrill, 1869 | |
| 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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Aliciidae is a family of sea anemones, comprising the following genera:
Microcionidae is a family of marine demosponges.
Pandaros is a genus of demosponge in the family Microcionidae. It contains the single species, Pandaros acanthifolium.
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