Urticina is a genus of relatively large and often colorful sea anemones in the family Actiniidae from the North Pacific, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Hexacorallia |
| Order: | Actiniaria |
| Family: | Actiniidae |
| Genus: | Urticina Ehrenberg, 1834 [1] |
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Species edit
The following species are listed in the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS):[2]
- Urticina asiatica (Averincev, 1967)
- Urticina clandestina Sanamyan N., Sanamyan K. & McDaniel, 2013
- Urticina coccinea (Verrill, 1866)
- Urticina columbiana Verrill, 1922 – crusty red anemone, columbia sand anemone, sand anemone, and sand-rose anemone
- Urticina coriacea (Cuvier, 1798) – red beaded anemone[3]
- Urticina crassicornis (Müller, 1776) – Christmas anemone[4]
- Urticina eques (Gosse, 1858) – white-spotted rose anemone or strawberry anemone
- Urticina felina (Linnaeus, 1761) – northern red anemone
- Urticina grebelnyi Sanamyan, N.P. & Sanamyan, K.E., 2006
- Urticina macloviana (Lesson, 1830)
- Urticina mcpeaki Hauswaldt & Pearson, 1999
- Urticina piscivora (Sebens & Laakso, 1978) – fish-eating anemone and fish-eating urticina
- Urticina tuberculata Cocks, 1850
References edit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Urticina.
- ^ Urticina Ehrenberg, 1834 World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2011-08-31.
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Urticina Ehrenberg, 1834". marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- ^ Urticina coriacea (Red beaded anemone) Archived 2014-03-17 at the Wayback Machine, WSU BeachWatchers
- ^ Urticina crassicornis (Christmas anemone) Archived 2010-06-02 at the Wayback Machine, WSU BeachWatchers
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