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Entacmaea quadricolor (Leuckart, 1828)
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Classification
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kingdom
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Animalia
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phylum
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Cnidaria
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class
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Anthozoa
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order
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Actiniaria
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family
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Actiniidae
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genus
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Entacmaea
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species
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Entacmaea quadricolor
Name
- Synonyms
- Actinia adhaerens Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1834
- Actinia ehrenbergii Brandt, 1835
- Actinia ehrenbergii Brandt, 1835
- Actinia erythrosoma Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1834
- Actinia helianthus Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1834
- Actinia quadricolor Leuckart, 1828
- Actinia quadricolor Leuckart, 1828
- Actinia quatricolor
- Actinia vas
- Actinia vasa Quoy & Gaimard
- Actinia vasum
- Anemonia adhaerens Ehrenberg
- Anemonia adherens
- Anemonia erythrosoma Ehrenberg
- Anemonia kwoiam Haddon & Shackleton, 1893
- Anemonia ramsayi (Haddon & Shackleton, 1893)
- Antheopsis carlgreni Lager, 1911
- Aulactinia gelam (Haddon & Shackleton)
- Cereactis quadricolor Leuckart
- Condylactis erythrosoma (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1834)
- Homonyms
- Entacmaea quadricolor (Leuckart, 1828)
- Common names
- Blasenanemone in German
- Knubbelanemone in German
- Kupferanemone in German
- bubble tip sea anemone in English
- bubble-tip anemone in English
- bulb tentacle sea anemone in English
- bulb tentacle sea anemone in English
- bulb-tentacle sea anemone in English
- bulb-tip anemone in English
- four-colored anemone in English
- maroon anemone in English
- rose anemone in English
- Blasenanemone in German
- Knubbelanemone in German
- Kupferanemone in German
- bubble tip sea anemone in English
- bubble-tip anemone in English
- bulb tentacle sea anemone in English
- bulb-tentacle sea anemone in English
- bulb-tip anemone in English
- four-colored anemone in English
- maroon anemone in English
- rose anemone in English
Bibliographic References
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Acuña, F. H.; Griffiths, C. L. (2004). Species richness, endemicity and distribution patterns of South African sea anemones (Cnidaria: Actiniaria & Corallimorpharia). African Zoology, 39(2): 193-200
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Allen, G. R.; Drew, J.; Kaufman, L. (2008). Amphiprion barberi, a new species of anemonefish (Pomacentridae) from Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa. Aqua -- International Journal of Ichthyology, 14(3): 105-114
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Arellano, S. M.; Fautin, D. G. (2001). Redescription and range extension of the sea anemone Exocoelactis actinostoloides (Wassilieff, 1908), with revision of genus Exocoelactis (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Actiniaria). Zoosystema, 23, 4, 645-657
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Arvedlund, M.; Hattori, A.; Iwao, K.; Takemura, A. (2006). When cleanerfish become anemonefish. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 86, 1265-1266
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Arvedlund, M.; Iwao, K.; Brolund, T. M.; Takemura, A. (2006). Juvenile Thalassoma amblycephalum Bleeker (Labridae, Teleostei) dwelling among the tentacles of sea anemones: a cleanerfish with an unusual talent?. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 329, 161-173
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Arvedlund, M.; McCormick, M. I.; Fautin, D. G.; Bildsøe, M. (1999). Host recognition and possible imprinting in the anemonefish Amphiprion melanopus. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 188, 207-218
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Astalhov, D. A. (2002). Species composition of anemonefishes (Perciformes, Pomacentridae) and their host sea anemones (Cnidaria, Actiniaria) in the Khanhhoa Province (South Vietnam). Journal of Ichthyology, 42(1): 37-50
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Bennett-Smith, M. F.; Majoris, J. E.; Titus, B. M.; Berumen, M. L. (2021). Clownfish hosting anemones (Anthozoa, Actiniaria) of the Red Sea: new associations and distributions, historical misidentifications, and morphological variability. <em>Marine Biodiversity Records.</em> 14(1).
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Brolund, T. M.; Tychsen, A.; Nielsen, L. E.; Arvedlund, M. (2004). An assemblage of the host anemone Heteractis magnifica in the northern Red Sea, and distribution of the resident anemonefish. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 84, 671-674
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Chadwick, N. E.; Arvedlund, M. (2005). Abundance of giant sea anemones and patterns of association with anemonefish in the northern Red Sea. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 85(5): 1287-1292
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Chen, C.; Soong, K.; Chen, C. A. (2008). The smallest oocytes among broadcast-spawning actiniarians and a unique lunar reproductive cycle in a unisexual population of the sea anemone, Aiptasia pulchella (Anthozoa: Actiniaria). Zoological Studies, 47(1): 37-45
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Chintiroglou, C. C.; Doumenc, D. A.; Le Renard, J.; Foubert, A.; Kolyva-Machaira, P. (1996). Classification of cnidarian nematocysts using multivariate and digital image analysis. Bios, 4, 123-135
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Dunn, D. F. (1981). The clownfish sea anemones: Stichodactylidae (Coelenterata: Actiniaria) and other sea anemones symbiotic with pomacentrid fishes. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 71, 1, 1-115
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Dunn, D. F. (1982). Cnidaria. McGraw-Hill Book Company. New York and other cities., volume 1, pp. 669-706
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Dunn, D. F. (1985). Sea anemones that harbor symbiotic pomacentrid fishes in the western Pacific. National Geographic Society Research Reports, 18, 279-283
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England, K. W. (1987). Certain Actiniaria (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from the Red Sea and tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), 53(4): 205-292
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Fautin, D. G. (1985). Competition by anemone fishes for host actinians. Proceedings of the Fifth International Coral Reef Congress, 5, 373-377
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Fautin, D. G. (1986). Why do anemonefishes inhabit only some host actinians?. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 15(3): 171-180
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Fautin, D. G. (1988). Sea anemones (Actiniaria and Corallimorpharia) of Madang Province. Science in New Guinea, 14(1): 22-29
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Fautin, D. G. (1991). The anemonefish symbiosis: what is known and what is not. Symbiosis, 10, 23-46