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Urticina crassicornis Christmas Anemone, Painted Anemone

Urticina crassicornisis commonly referred to as Christmas Anemone, Painted Anemone. Difficulty in the aquarium: Only for advanced aquarists. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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Painted Urticina(Urticina crassicornis),Santa Cruz Island,May 28-30, 2005


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lexID:
6377 
AphiaID:
100832 
Scientific:
Urticina crassicornis 
German:
Christmas Anemone 
English:
Christmas Anemone, Painted Anemone 
Category:
See Anemones 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Actiniaria (Order) > Actiniidae (Family) > Urticina (Genus) > crassicornis (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Müller, ), 1776 
Occurrence:
Alaska (Western Atlantic), Canada , West Coast USA 
Sea depth:
- 30 Meter 
Size:
up to 3.94" (10 cm) 
Temperature:
42.8 °F - 68 °F (6°C - 20°C) 
Food:
Fish (little fishes), Schrimps, Zoobenthos 
Difficulty:
Only for advanced aquarists 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
More related species
in this lexicon:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2023-11-01 09:05:25 

Info

Urticina crassicornis (O.F. Mueller, 1776)

The Christmas anemone is common in the intertidal areas from the coasts of California all the way to the coasts of Alaska.

Synonymised names
Actinia (Isacmaea) crassicornis Müller, 1776 · unaccepted
Actinia crassicornis Müller, 1776 · unaccepted (basionym)
Tealia (Rhodactinia) crassicornis (Müller, 1776) · unaccepted
Tealia (Urticina) felina var. crassicornis Linnaeus · unaccepted
Tealia crassicornis (Müller, 1776) · unaccepted (Synonym)
Tealia felina crassicornis (O. F. Müller, 1776) · unaccepted
Urticina (Tealia) crassicornis (Müller, 1776) · unaccepted
Urticina (Tealia) felina var. crassicornis · unaccepted
Urticina felina var. kurila (Averincev, 1967) · unaccepted
Urticina felina kurila (Averincev, 1967) · unaccepted

Scientific paper

  1. A new cytolytic protein from the sea anemone Urticina crassicornis that binds to cholesterol- and sphingomyelin-rich membranes, Andrej Razpotnik; Igor Križaj; William R. Kem; Peter Maček; Tom Turk, 2009

External links

  1. Diver.net Chris Grossman's Underwater Photography (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. Wallawalla (en). Abgerufen am 01.11.2023.
  3. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Commonly

Painted Urticina(Urticina crassicornis),Santa Cruz Island,May 28-30, 2005
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Painted Urticina(Urticina crassicornis),Anacapa Island,July 4, 2005
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Urticina crassicornis, Christmas Anemone or Painted Anemone,Salt Creek Recreation Area, Clallam Co., Washington 2015
Christmas anemone Fitzgerald Marine Reserve 2016

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