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Aiptasia Gosse, 1858

100718  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:100718)

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Aipstasia · unaccepted
Alptasia · unaccepted

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  1. Species Aiptasia couchii Gosse
  2. Species Aiptasia insignis Carlgren, 1941
  3. Species Aiptasia mutabilis (Gravenhorst, 1831)
  4. Species Aiptasia agassizii Andres, 1883 accepted as Aiptasia pallida (Agassiz in Verrill, 1864) accepted as Exaiptasia pallida (Agassiz in Verrill, 1864) represented as Exaiptasia diaphana (Rapp, 1829)
  5. Species Aiptasia amacha Gosse, 1858 accepted as Aiptasia mutabilis (Gravenhorst, 1831)
  6. Species Aiptasia annulata (Le Sueur, 1817) accepted as Bartholomea annulata (Le Sueur, 1817)
  7. Species Aiptasia arrulata accepted as Bartholomea annulata (Le Sueur, 1817)
  8. Species Aiptasia californica Carlgren, 1952 accepted as Exaiptasia pallida (Agassiz in Verrill, 1864) represented as Exaiptasia diaphana (Rapp, 1829) (subjective synonym)
  9. Species Aiptasia carnea Andrès, 1881 accepted as Aiptasia mutabilis (Gravenhorst, 1831)
  10. Species Aiptasia chamaeleon accepted as Telmatactis forskalii (Hemprich & Ehrenberg in Ehrenberg, 1834)
  11. Species Aiptasia diaphana (Rapp, 1829) accepted as Exaiptasia diaphana (Rapp, 1829)
  12. Species Aiptasia eruptaurantia (Field, 1949) accepted as Aiptasiogeton eruptaurantia (Field, 1949)
  13. Species Aiptasia erythrochila (Fischer, 1874) accepted as Diadumene cincta Stephenson, 1925
  14. Species Aiptasia ignea (Fischer, 1874) accepted as Actinothoe ignea (Fischer, 1874)
  15. Species Aiptasia inula (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) accepted as Exaiptasia pallida (Agassiz in Verrill, 1864) represented as Exaiptasia diaphana (Rapp, 1829) (subjective synonym)
  16. Species Aiptasia lacerata Dalyell accepted as Sagartiogeton laceratus (Dalyell, 1848) accepted as Sagartia lacerata (Dalyell, 1848)
  17. Species Aiptasia leiodactyla Pax, 1910 accepted as Exaiptasia pallida (Agassiz in Verrill, 1864) represented as Exaiptasia diaphana (Rapp, 1829) (subjective synonym)
  18. Species Aiptasia lucida (Duchassaing de Fonbressin & Michelotti, 1860) accepted as Ragactis lucida (Duchassaing de Fonbressin & Michelotti, 1860) accepted as Laviactis lucida (Duchassaing de Fombressin & Michelotti, 1860)
  19. Species Aiptasia mimosa (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) accepted as Exaiptasia pallida (Agassiz in Verrill, 1864) represented as Exaiptasia diaphana (Rapp, 1829)
  20. Species Aiptasia minima Stephenson, 1918 accepted as Aiptasiomorpha minima (Stephenson, 1918)
  21. Species Aiptasia minuta (Verrill, 1867) accepted as Exaiptasia pallida (Agassiz in Verrill, 1864) represented as Exaiptasia diaphana (Rapp, 1829) (subjective synonym)
  22. Species Aiptasia nivea (Lesson, 1830) accepted as Paranthus niveus (Lesson, 1830)
  23. Species Aiptasia pallida (Agassiz in Verrill, 1864) accepted as Exaiptasia pallida (Agassiz in Verrill, 1864) represented as Exaiptasia diaphana (Rapp, 1829) (new genus created by Grajales & Rodriguez 2014)
  24. Species Aiptasia parva Carlgren, 1938 accepted as Aiptasiogeton parva (Carlgren, 1938) (Transferred to Aiptasiogeton by Grajales & Rodriguez (2014))
  25. Species Aiptasia peruviana Pax, 1912 accepted as Bartholomea peruviana (Pax, 1912) (original binomen)
  26. Species Aiptasia pulchella Carlgren, 1943 accepted as Exaiptasia pallida (Agassiz in Verrill, 1864) represented as Exaiptasia diaphana (Rapp, 1829) (subjective synonym)
  27. Species Aiptasia rhodora (Couthouy in Dana, 1846) accepted as Paranthus rhodora (Couthouy in Dana, 1846)
  28. Species Aiptasia saxicola Andrès, 1881 accepted as Aiptasia diaphana (Rapp, 1829) accepted as Exaiptasia diaphana (Rapp, 1829)
  29. Species Aiptasia solifera (Le Sueur, 1817) accepted as Bartholomea annulata (Le Sueur, 1817)
  30. Species Aiptasia tagetes (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) accepted as Exaiptasia pallida (Agassiz in Verrill, 1864) represented as Exaiptasia diaphana (Rapp, 1829) (subjective synonym)
  31. Species Aiptasia turgida Andres, 1881 accepted as Aiptasia mutabilis (Gravenhorst, 1831)
  32. Species Aiptasia couchi Gosse represented as Aiptasia couchii Gosse (misspelling)
  33. Species Aiptasia prima (Stephenson, 1918) (uncertain, Cnidae data not provided in original description so identity is inconclusive (see Grajales & Rodriguez 2014)))
  34. Species Aiptasia sexicola (uncertain > nomen dubium)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Gosse, P. (1858). XL.—Synopsis of the families, genera, and species of the British Actiniæ. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 1(6): 414-419., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222935808696950
page(s): 416 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Rodríguez, E.; Fautin, D; Daly, M. (2024). World List of Actiniaria. Aiptasia Gosse, 1858. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=100718 on 2024-03-19
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original description Gosse, P. (1858). XL.—Synopsis of the families, genera, and species of the British Actiniæ. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 1(6): 414-419., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222935808696950
page(s): 416 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Aiptasioides Stephenson, 1918) Stephenson, T. A. (1918). Coelenterata. Part I. - Actiniaria. <em>Natural History Reports on British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition 1910 Vol. 5(1).</em>
page(s): 51 [details]   

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS[details]   

basis of record van der Land, J.; den Hartog, J.H. (2001). Actiniaria, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 106-109 (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source Doumenc D. & Foubert A. (1984). Microinformatique et taxonomie des actinies: Cle mondiale des genres. Annales de l'Institut Océanographique, 60, 1, 43-86.
page(s): 58, 61, 70, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84 [details]   

additional source Reed, S.A., 1971. Some common Coelenterates in Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii. In: H.M. Lenhoff, L. Muscatine & L.V. Davis, eds, Experimental Coelenterate Biology : 37-51.
page(s): 45, 46, 49 [details]   

additional source Rioja y Martín, J., 1906. Datos para el conocimiento de la fauna marina de España. Celentéreos de la estación de Biología de Santander. Bolm R. Soc. esp. Hist. nat. 6 6: 275-280.
page(s): 280 [details]   

additional source Daly, M.M., Fautin D.G., Cappola V.A., 2003. Systematics of the Hexacorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139 3: 419-437.
page(s): 424-425, 427-428 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Fautin, D.G, Hickman, C. P. Jr., Daly, M., Molodtsova, T. 2007. Shallow-water sea anemones (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actiniaria) and tube anemones (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Ceriantharia) of the Galápagos Islands. Pacific Science 61(4): 549-573
page(s): 551, 552, 561-564, figs. 13-14 [details]   

additional source Andres, A. (1884). Le attinie. Volume primo, contente bibliografia, introduzione e specigrafia. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81386
page(s): 165 [details]   

additional source Carlgren, O. (1949). A survey of the Ptychodactiaria, Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria. <em>Kungliga Svenska Vet- enskapsakadamiens Handlingar.</em> 1: 1–121.
page(s): 107-108 [details]   

additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Hinojosa-Arango, G. & R. Riosmena-Rodríguez. (2004). Influence of rhodolith-forming species and growth-form on associated fauna of rhodolith beds in the central-west Gulf of California, México. <em>Marine Ecology.</em> 25(2): 109-127., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0485.2004.00019.x
page(s): 109, 111, 114, 122 [details]   

additional source McMurrich, J. P. (1889). A contribution to the actinology of the Bermudas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 41: 102-126
page(s): 102-104 [details]   

additional source Verrill, A. E. (1907). Additions to the Anthozoa and Hydrozoa of the Bermudas. Anthozoa. Verrill, A. E. New Haven, Conn., chapter 5, edition 2nd, volume 1, pp. 551-572
page(s): 554 [details]   

additional source Andres, A. (1883). Le Attinie (Monografia). Coi Tipi der Salviucci. Roma., volume 1 (Bibliografia, introduzione e specigrafia), pp. 460.
page(s): 165-16 [details]   

additional source Parulekar, A. H. (1968). Sea anemones (Actiniaria) of Bombay. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 65(1): 138-147
page(s): 138, 144, 146, Plate II Fig. 15 [details]   

additional source Duerden, J. E. (1902). Report on the actinians of Porto Rico [Investigations of the aquatic resources and fisheries of Porto Rico by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer Fish Hawk in 1899]. Bulletin of the U.S. Fisheries Commission, 20, 2, 323-374
page(s): 355 [details]   

additional source England, K. W. (1987). Certain Actiniaria (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from the Red Sea and tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), 53(4): 205-292
page(s): 207-208 [details]   

additional source Carlgren, O. (1945). Further contributions to the knowledge of the cnidom in the Anthozoa especially in the Actiniaria. Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapets Handlingar, 56, N.F., (9): 1-24
page(s): 22 [details]   

additional source Haddon, A. C. (1898). The Actiniaria of Torres Straits. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, 6, 2, 393-520
page(s): 448 [details]   

additional source Hertwig, R. (1882). Die Actinien der Challenger Expedition. Gustav Fischer. Jena., pp. 119.
page(s): 15, 27 [details]   

additional source Hertwig, R. (1882). Report on the Actiniaria dredged by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 (Zoology), 6(1): 1-136
page(s): 17, 31 [details]   

additional source McMurrich, J. P. (1893). Report on the Actiniæ collected by the United States Fish Commission Steamer Albatross during the winter of 1887-1888. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 16(930): 119-216
page(s): 127, 179 [details]   

additional source McMurrich, J. P. (1904). The Actiniae of the Plate collection. Zoologische Jahrbücher, 6 Suppl.(2): 215-306
page(s): 278 [details]   

additional source Parulekar, A. H. (1969). Neoaiptasia commensali, gen. et. sp. nov.: an actiniarian commensal of hermit crabs. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 66(1): 57-62
page(s): 57 [details]   

additional source Gosse, P. H. (1865). On Ægeon alfordi, a new British sea-anemone. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 16, 3, 41-44
page(s): 42-43 [details]   

additional source den Hartog, J. C. (1997). The sea anemone fauna of Indonesian coral reefs. Periplus Editions. Republic of Singapore., chapter Box 8.2, volume 7, pp. 351-370
page(s): 359-360 [details]   

additional source Duerden, J. E. (1898). The geographical distribution of the Actiniaria of Jamaica. Natural Science, 12(72): 100-105
page(s): 101 [details]   

additional source Bachar, A.; Achituv, Y.; Pasternak, Z.; Dubinsky, Z. (2007). Autotrophy versus heterotrophy: the origin of carbon determines its fate in a symbiotic sea anemone. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 349, 295-298
page(s): 296-297 [details]   

additional source Excoffon, A. C.; Zamponi, M. O. (1991). La biologia reproductiva de Phymactis clematis Dana, 1849 (Actiniaria: Actiniidae): gametogenesis, periodos reproductivos, desarrollo embrionario y larval. Spheniscus, 9, 25-39
page(s): 36 [details]   

additional source Häussermann, V.; Försterra, G. (2005). Distribution patterns of Chilean shallow-water sea anemones (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actinaria, Corallimorpharia), with a discussion of the taxonomic and zoogeographic relationships between the actinofauna of ths South East Pacific, the South West Atlantic, and the Antarctic. Scientia Marina, 69 (Suppl. 2), 91-102
page(s): 95 [details]   

additional source Okey, T. A.; Shepherd, S. A.; Martínez, P. C. (2003). A new record of anemone barrens in the Galápagos. Noticias de Galápagos, (62): 17-20
page(s): 17-19 [details]   

additional source Chen, C.; Soong, K.; Chen, C. A. (2008). The smallest oocytes among broadcast-spawning actiniarians and a unique lunar reproductive cycle in a unisexual population of the sea anemone, Aiptasia pulchella (Anthozoa: Actiniaria). Zoological Studies, 47(1): 37-45
page(s): 38 [details]   

additional source Okey, T. A.; Banks, S.; Born, A. F.; Bustamante, R. H.; Calvopiña, M.; Edgar, G. J.; Espinoza, E.; Fariña, J. M.; Garske, L. E.; Reck, G. K.; Salazar, S.; Shepherd, S. A.; Toral-Granda, V.; Wallem, P. (2004). A trophic model of a Galápagos subtidal rocky reef for evaluating fisheries and conservation strategies. Ecological Modelling, 172, 383-401
page(s): 397 [details]   

additional source Torrey, H. B. (1898). Observations on monogenesis in Metridium. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, I+, 3, 10
page(s): 352 [details]   

additional source Parulekar, A. H. (1990). Actinarian sea anemone fauna of India. National Institute of Oceanography [India], pp. 218-228
page(s): 219, 221, 223, 227 [details]   

additional source Dunn, D. F. (1982). Cnidaria. McGraw-Hill Book Company. New York and other cities., volume 1, pp. 669-706
page(s): 695 [details]   

additional source Williams, R. B. (2012). Identification and dating of the editions and issues of "Le Attinie", a taxonomic monograph of the world's sea anemones (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia), by Angelo Andres. Zoological Bibliography, 2(2 and 3): 90-104
page(s): 93 [details]   

additional source Parulekar, A. H. (1966). Cnidae in the actinians of Maharashtra. Journal of Biological Science, 9, 36-42
page(s): 42 [details]   

additional source Andres, A. (1883). Le Attinie. Atti dell' Accademia de Lincei, 14, 3, Memorie, 211-673
page(s): 343, 373-374, 637 [details]   
 
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