Calliactis
| Calliactis | |
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| Hermit crab (Dardanus pedunculatus) with Calliactis species attached to its shell. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Anthozoa |
| Order: | Actiniaria |
| Family: | Hormathiidae |
| Genus: | Calliactis Verrill, 1869 |
| Species | |
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Calliactis parasitica on the hermit crab Dardanus calidus
Calliactis is a genus of sea anemones. Species in this genus are mutually symbiotic with hermit crabs. The anemone gets a place to live and discarded scraps of the crab's food in exchange for its help in defending the crab.[1]
Species
Species within the genus include:
- Calliactis algoaensis
- Calliactis androgyna
- Calliactis annulata
- Calliactis argentacoloratus
- Calliactis brevicornis
- Calliactis conchicola
- Calliactis japonica
- Calliactis parasitica
- Calliactis polypores
- Calliactis polypus
- Calliactis reticulata
- Calliactis sinensis
- Calliactis tricolor
- Calliactis valdiviae
- Calliactis variegata
- Calliactis vincentina
- Calliactis xishaensis
References
- ↑ Gusmão LC, Daly M (September 2010). "Evolution of sea anemones (Cnidaria: Actiniaria: Hormathiidae) symbiotic with hermit crabs". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 56 (3): 868–77. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.05.001. PMID 20457262.
External links
- http://www.gsmfc.org/seamap/picture_guide/Other/calliactis.pdf
- http://www.marlin.ac.uk/species/Calpar.htm
- http://www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/species.asp?item=D112870
- http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/BMLSS/crustace.htm
- "Calliactis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.