Sanamyan N.P.1, Sanamyan K.E.1, Bocharova E.S.2, Morozov T.B.3, Galkin S.V.4 2023. Sea anemones (Actiniaria, Corallimorpharia and Zoantharia) from the Western Bering Sea (Northwest Pacific) // Invertebrate Zoology. Vol.20. No.1: 27–56 [in English], Suppl. Table 1, Suppl. Table 2.
1 Kamchatka Branch of Pacific Geographical Institute, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Partizanskaya 6, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 683000, Russia. E-mail: actiniaria@sanamyan.com
2 Koltzov Institute of Developmental Biology of Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilova Str. 26, Moscow, 119334, Russia. E-mail: bocharova.ekaterina@gmail.com
3 Kamchatka Branch of the Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, Naberezhnaya Str. 18, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 683000, Russia. E-mail: tmorozov1@yandex.ru
4 Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of Russian Academy of Sciences, Nahimovskiy Pr. 36, Moscow, 117997, Russia. E-mail: galkin@ocean.ru
doi: 10.15298/invertzool.20.1.02
ABSTRACT: The paper presents a review of the fauna of sea anemones collected and/or documented photographically in the western part of the Bering Sea: in the areas of the Vulcanologov Massif, Karaginsky and Olyutorsky Gulfs and Koryak slope. In total, about 80 species have been identified and an annotated list of sea anemones of the orders Actiniaria, Corallimorpharia, and Zoantharia is provided. This is the first comprehensive report of the species diversity of sea anemones living in the western Bering Sea, based on the recent collections and underwater imaging.
KEY WORDS: NW Pacific, Bering Sea, sea anemones, Actiniaria, Corallimorpharia, Zoantharia, deep-sea fauna, biodiversity.
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