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Aiptasia Gosse, 1858 
AphiaID: 100718

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Actiniaria (Order) > Nyantheae (Suborder) > Thenaria (Infraorder) > Acontiaria (Superfamily) > Aiptasiidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Aiptasiidae Carlgren, 1924
Synonymised
taxa
  Alptasia
Sources  basis of record: van der Land, J.; den Hartog, J.H. (2001). Actiniaria, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 106-109 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Species Aiptasia californica Carlgren, 1952
Species Aiptasia carnea Andrès, 1881
Species Aiptasia diaphana (Rapp, 1829)
Species Aiptasia erythrochila (Fischer, 1874)
Species Aiptasia insignis Carlgren, 1941
Species Aiptasia inula (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Species Aiptasia leiodactyla Pax, 1910
Species Aiptasia mimosa (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Species Aiptasia minuta (Verrill, 1866)
Species Aiptasia mutabilis (Gravenhorst, 1831)
Species Aiptasia pallida (Agassiz in Verrill, 1864)
Species Aiptasia parva Carlgren, 1938
Species Aiptasia prima (Stephenson, 1918)
Species Aiptasia pulchella Carlgren, 1943
Species Aiptasia saxicola Andrès, 1881
Species Aiptasia tagetes (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)

Species Aiptasia couchii accepted as Aiptasia mutabilis (Gravenhorst, 1831)
Species Aiptasia eruptaurantia (Field, 1949) accepted as Aiptasiogeton eruptaurantia (Field, 1949)
Species Aiptasia minima (Stephensen, 1918) accepted as Aiptasiomorpha minima (Stephenson, 1918)
Environment marine
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:100718
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Aiptasia Gosse, 1858. In: Fautin, Daphne G. 2011. Hexacorallians of the World. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=100718 on 2013-06-19
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