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:
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|||Anthopleura africana <small>(Carlgren, 1900)</small>
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|||Anthopleura ambonensis <small>(Kwietniewski, 1898)</small>
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|||Anthopleura anjunae <small>Den Hartog & Vennam, 1993</small>
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|||Anthopleura anneae <small>Carlgren, 1940</small>
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|120px||Anthopleura artemisia <small>(Pickering in Dana, 1846)</small>
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|||Anthopleura asiatica <small>Uchida & Muramatsu, 1958</small>
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|||Anthopleura atodai <small>Yanagi & Daly, 2004</small>
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|||Anthopleura ballii <small>Cocks, 1851</small>
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|||Anthopleura biscayensis <small>Fischer, 1874</small>
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|||Anthopleura buddemeieri <small>Fautin, 2005</small>
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|||Anthopleura chinensis <small>England, 1992</small>
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|||Anthopleura dalyae <small>González-Muñoz, Garese & Acuña, 2018</small>
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|||Anthopleura dixoniana <small>Haddon & Shackleton, 1893</small>
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|||Anthopleura dowii <small>Verrill, 1869</small>
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|120px||Aggregating anemone (Anthopleura elegantissima) <small>(Brandt, 1835)</small>
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|||Anthopleura foxi <small>Carlgren, 1927</small>
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|||Anthopleura fuscoviridis <small>Carlgren, 1949</small>
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|||Anthopleura haddoni <small>(Kwietniewski, 1898)</small>
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|||Anthopleura handi <small>Dunn, 1978</small>
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|||Anthopleura hermaphroditica <small>(Carlgren, 1899)</small>
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|||Anthopleura incerta <small>England, 1992</small>
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|||Anthopleura inconspicua <small>(Hutton, 1878)</small>
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|||Anthopleura insignis <small>Carlgren, 1940</small>
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|||Anthopleura japonica <small>Verrill, 1899</small>
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|||Anthopleura kohli <small>Carlgren, 1930</small>
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|||Anthopleura krebsi <small>Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860</small>
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|||Anthopleura kurogane <small>Uchida & Muramatsu, 1958</small>
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|||Anthopleura mariae <small>Vassallo-Avalos, González-Muñoz, Acuña & Rivas, 2020</small>
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|||Anthopleura mariscali <small>Daly & Fautin, 2004</small>
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|120px||Long-tentacled anemone (Anthopleura michaelseni) <small>(Pax, 1920)</small>
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|||Anthopleura minima <small>(Stuckey & Walton, 1910)</small>
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|||Anthopleura mortenseni <small>Carlgren, 1941</small>
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|||Anthopleura mortoni <small>England, 1992</small>
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|||Anthopleura nigrescens <small>(Verrill, 1928)</small>
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|||Anthopleura pallida <small>Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1866</small>
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|||Anthopleura panikkarii <small>Parulekar, 1968</small>
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|||Anthopleura qingdaoensis <small>Pei, 1994</small>
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|||Anthopleura radians <small>Spano & Häussermann, 2017</small>
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|120px||Anthopleura rosea <small>(Stuckey & Walton, 1910)</small>
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|||Anthopleura sanctaehelenae <small>Carlgren, 1941</small>
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|120px||Anthopleura sola <small>Pearse & Francis, 2000</small>
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|||Anthopleura stellula <small>Hemprich & Ehrenberg in Ehrenberg, 1834</small>
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|||Anthopleura stimpsonii <small>Verrill, 1869</small>
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|||Anthopleura texaensis <small>Carlgren & Hedgpeth, 1952</small>
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|||Anthopleura thallia <small>Gosse, 1854</small>
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|||Anthopleura variata <small>Vassallo-Avalos, González-Muñoz, Morrone, Acuña, Durán-Fuentes, Stampar, Solís-Marín, and Rivas 2024</small>
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|||Anthopleura varioarmata <small>Watzl, 1922</small>
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|||Anthopleura waridi <small>(Carlgren, 1900)</small>
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|120px||Anthopleura xanthogrammica <small>(Brandt, 1835)</small>
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