Ceriantharia (Cnidaria) of the world: An annotated catalogue and key to species

• Autor(a) principal: Stampar, Sérgio N. [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Reimer, James D., Maronna, Maximiliano M., Lopes, Celine S. S. [UNESP], Ceriello, Hellen [UNESP], Santos, Thais B. [UNESP], Acuña, Fabián H., Morandini, André C.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.952.50617
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.952.50617; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/200815
• topic: Cnidaria; Families; Genera; Identification key; Tube-dwelling anemones

The diversity of Ceriantharia is known from studies formally describing species from the late 18th Century onwards. However, no nomenclators including a list and discussion of all valid species have been produced since a list discussed by Carlgren in 1912. The present nomenclator presents a complete list of adult species of Ceriantharia of the World, including a discussion on each species. It includes the three families (Arachnactidae, Botrucnidiferidae, Cerianthidae) and the currently accepted 54 species based on their adult form. This study serves as a presentation of the “state-of-the-art” list of species of Ceriantharia, and includes a species identification key to support taxonomic identification. Additional in-depth species-byspecies investigations for almost all cerianthid species is still needed, as the information available for most of these species is quite superficial.