Parazoanthus
Encyclopedia
Parazoanthus is a genus
of anemone
-like anthozoans
in the order
Zoanthidae
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of anemone
Anemone
Anemone , is a genus of about 120 species of flowering plants in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae in the north and south temperate zones...
-like anthozoans
Anthozoa
Anthozoa is a class within the phylum Cnidaria that contains the sea anemones and corals. Unlike other cnidarians, anthozoans do not have a medusa stage in their development. Instead, they release sperm and eggs that form a planula, which attaches to some substrate on which the cnidarian grows...
in the order
Order (biology)
In scientific classification used in biology, the order is# a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, family, genus, and species, with order fitting in between class and family...
Zoanthidae
Species
Species in this genus include:- Parazoanthus anguicomus (Norman, 1868)
- Parazoanthus axinellaeParazoanthus axinellaeParazoanthus axinellae, the Yellow Cluster Anemone is a zoanthid coral found on the southern Atlantic coasts of Europe and in the Mediterranean Sea...
(Schmidt, 1862) - Parazoanthus capensis Carlgren, 1938
- Parazoanthus catenularis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860)
- Parazoanthus darwini Reimer & Fujii, 2010
- Parazoanthus dichroicus Haddon A.C. & Shackleton A.M. 1891
- Parazoanthus elongatus McMurrich, 1904
- Parazoanthus parasiticus (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860)
- Parazoanthus puertoricense West, 1979
- Parazoanthus swiftii (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860)