Anthopleura is a genus of sea anemones, of the family Actiniidae.
Etymology
Anthopleura is Greek; anthōs, flowers and pleura, ribs.
Species According to the World Register of Marine Species, this genus includes 49 species: Image SpeciesAnthopleura africana (Carlgren, 1900)Anthopleura ambonensis (Kwietniewski, 1898)Anthopleura anjunae Den Hartog & Vennam, 1993Anthopleura anneae Carlgren, 1940Anthopleura artemisia (Pickering in Dana, 1846)Anthopleura asiatica Uchida & Muramatsu, 1958Anthopleura atodai Yanagi & Daly, 2004Anthopleura ballii Cocks, 1851Anthopleura biscayensis Fischer, 1874Anthopleura buddemeieri Fautin, 2005Anthopleura chinensis England, 1992Anthopleura dalyae González-Muñoz, Garese & Acuña, 2018Anthopleura dixoniana Haddon & Shackleton, 1893Anthopleura dowii Verrill, 1869Aggregating anemone (Anthopleura elegantissima) (Brandt, 1835)Anthopleura foxi Carlgren, 1927Anthopleura fuscoviridis Carlgren, 1949Anthopleura haddoni (Kwietniewski, 1898)Anthopleura handi Dunn, 1978Anthopleura hermaphroditica (Carlgren, 1899)Anthopleura incerta England, 1992Anthopleura inconspicua (Hutton, 1878)Anthopleura insignis Carlgren, 1940Anthopleura japonica Verrill, 1899Anthopleura kohli Carlgren, 1930Anthopleura krebsi Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860Anthopleura kurogane Uchida & Muramatsu, 1958Anthopleura mariae Vassallo-Avalos, González-Muñoz, Acuña & Rivas, 2020Anthopleura mariscali Daly & Fautin, 2004Long-tentacled anemone (Anthopleura michaelseni) (Pax, 1920)Anthopleura minima (Stuckey & Walton, 1910)Anthopleura mortenseni Carlgren, 1941Anthopleura mortoni England, 1992Anthopleura nigrescens (Verrill, 1928)Anthopleura pallida Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1866Anthopleura panikkarii Parulekar, 1968Anthopleura qingdaoensis Pei, 1994Anthopleura radians Spano & Häussermann, 2017Anthopleura rosea (Stuckey & Walton, 1910)Anthopleura sanctaehelenae Carlgren, 1941Anthopleura sola Pearse & Francis, 2000Anthopleura stellula Hemprich & Ehrenberg in Ehrenberg, 1834Anthopleura stimpsonii Verrill, 1869Anthopleura texaensis Carlgren & Hedgpeth, 1952Anthopleura thallia Gosse, 1854Anthopleura variata Vassallo-Avalos, González-Muñoz, Morrone, Acuña, Durán-Fuentes, Stampar, Solís-Marín, and Rivas 2024Anthopleura varioarmata Watzl, 1922Anthopleura waridi (Carlgren, 1900)Anthopleura xanthogrammica (Brandt, 1835)
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