Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
4. living organisms (entities)
5. Eukaryota (domain)
6. Animalia (kingdom)
7. Cnidaria (phylum)
8. Anthozoa (class)
9. Ceriantharia (order)
10. Cerianthidae (family)

Narrower term/s

• Cerianthus americanus (species)

Anotations

Scope note:

Group of invertebrate marine animals that take the form of an elongated polyp, specifically a hollow stalklike structure with a mouth and tentacles at the upper end; the animals live in a tube of slime on the ocean bottom. The genus is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical waters.