First Record of Four Species of Sea Anemones (Cnidaria: Actiniaria) For Lebanese Coast, Eastern Mediterranean Sea
Received Date: Feb 21, 2022 / Accepted Date: Mar 18, 2022 / Published Date: Mar 25, 2022
Abstract
Four species of sea anemones of the order Actiniaria were reported for the first time along the Lebanese coast. Anthopleura ballii (Cocks, 1851), Aulactinia rubripunctata (Grube, 1840), Aulactinia verrucosa (Pennant, 1777), and Cereus pedunculatus (Pennant, 1777) were observed and photographed from the tidal pools of the vermetid reef of Saksakiyeh, south Lebanon. These species belong to three genera which have not been reported from this region before. Also, the family Sagartiidae is reported from Lebanese coast for the first time. This report discusses details of these new observations.
Keywords: Anthopleura ballii; Aulactinia rubripunctata; Aulactinia verrucosa; Cereus pedunculatus; Actiniidae; Sagartiidae; Lebanon; Eastern Mediterranean Sea
Citation: Badreddine A, Bitar G, Sanamyan N (2022) First Record of Four Species of Sea Anemones (Cnidaria: Actiniaria) For Lebanese Coast, Eastern Mediterranean Sea. J Fisheries Livest Prod 10: 333. Doi: 10.4172/2332-2608.1000333
Copyright: © 2022 Badreddine A, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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