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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Cnidarians
  4. Sea Anemones and Corals
  5. Sea Anemones
  6. Actinioidea
  7. Actiniid Sea Anemones

family

Actiniid Sea Anemones

Actiniidae

Includes
28 native 1 introduced 5 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children 24 of 25

  • Anthopleura 6 native
  • Urticina 5 native
  • Epiactis 4 native
  • Cribrinopsis 4 native
  • Bunodosoma 2 native
  • Aulactinia 2 native
  • Actinostella 1 native
  • Condylactis 1 native
  • Isoaulactinia 1 native
  • Anemonia 1 native
  • Cladactella 1 native
  • Sand Anemone
  • Actinia
  • Bunodactis
  • Parabunodactis
  • Isactinia
  • Gyractis
  • Bolocera
  • Mesactinia
  • Entacmaea
  • Phlyctenactis
  • Phlyctenanthus
  • Pseudactinia
  • Oulactis

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native actiniid sea anemones All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Sunburst Anemone Anthopleura sola 33,270 observations
  • Aggregating Anemone Anthopleura elegantissima 32,993 observations
  • Giant Green Anemone Anthopleura xanthogrammica 28,130 observations
  • Moonglow Anemone Anthopleura artemisia 10,059 observations
  • Brooding Anemone Epiactis prolifera 4,152 observations
  • Mann's Anemone Cladactella manni 80 observations

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