This article is about the genus of sea anemones. For the genus of bulbous perennial plants, see Puschkinia.
Adamsia
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Hexacorallia
Order:
Actiniaria
Family:
Hormathiidae
Genus:
Adamsia Forbes, 1840
Species
See text
Adamsia is a genus of sea anemones in the family Hormathiidae. Species in this genus are mutually symbiotic with hermit crabs. The anemone gets a place to live and discarded scraps of the crab's food in exchange for its help in the crab's defence. As these anemones grow, they secrete a horny membrane, known as a carcinoecium, which overlies the crab's original snail shell and expands the living space of the crab. This means the anemone does not have to change substrate and the crab does not have to seek a larger shell as they both grow.[1]
Adamsia palliata is a species of sea anemone in the family Hormathiidae. It is usually found growing on a gastropod shell inhabited by the hermit crab...
more unusual relationships are those between certain anemones (such as Adamsia, Calliactis and Neoaiptasia) and hermit crabs or snails, and Bundeopsis...
containing the hermit crab Pagurus prideaux and bearing the sea anemone Adamsia palliata. In aquarium settings, the mutualism between C. parasitica and...
1878 Type species Adamsia typica Dunker, 1857 Species See text Synonyms * Adamsia Dunker, 1857 (Invalid: junior homonym of Adamsia Forbes, 1840 [Cnidaria];...
northwest coast of Europe and usually lives symbiotically with the sea anemone Adamsia palliata. Like other hermit crabs, P. prideaux has an asymmetric, unarmoured...
(1920). "The Development of the Sea-Anemones Metridium dianthus (Ellis) and Adamsia palliata (Bohad)". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 209...
shell (Turritella communis) and Ocinebrina aciculata. The sea anemone Adamsia palliata often lives on the shell occupied by a hermit crab; usually this...
class Anthozoa. Genera in this family include: Actinauge Verrill, 1883 Adamsia Forbes, 1840 Allantactis Danielssen, 1890 Calliactis Verrill, 1869 Cataphellia...
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