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Sea fan anemone - Amphianthus dohrnii - General information

Amphianthus dohrnii

Image Keith Hiscock - Sea fan anemone on Eunicella verrucosa. Image width ca 2 cm.
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Distribution map

Amphianthus dohrnii recorded (dark blue bullet) and expected (light blue bullet) distribution in Britain and Ireland (see below)

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General information

Key Icon Researched by: Angus Jackson Text page icon Refereed by: Dr Simon K. Davy

Taxonomy icon Taxonomy

Phylum Cnidaria Sea anemones, corals, sea firs & jellyfish
Class Hexacorallia
Map icon Recorded distribution in Britain and Ireland Recorded from the west coast of Scotland but most frequently recorded "off Plymouth". Also recorded from the Lizard, Lundy and off the south-west and south coasts of Ireland.
Habitat information icon Habitat information It occurs attached to the branches of sea fans (Eunicella verrucosa and Swiftia pallida) and on other 'tubular' organisms such as Tubularia indivisa. Always sublittoral, sometimes in very deep water.
Text page icon Description A small species of anemone rarely exceeding 10 mm across the disk, exceptionally up to 25 mm along the axis of the base. The colour is pink, buff, orange or red with streaks or splashes of opaque white.

This review can be cited as follows:

Angus Jackson 2008. Amphianthus dohrnii. Sea fan anemone. Marine Life Information Network: Biology and Sensitivity Key Information Sub-programme [on-line]. Plymouth: Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. [cited 20/06/2013]. Available from: <http://www.marlin.ac.uk/speciesfullreview.php?speciesID=2490>