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WoRMS taxon details

Aiptasia mutabilis (Gravenhorst, 1831) 
AphiaID: 100859

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Actiniaria (Order) > Nyantheae (Suborder) > Thenaria (Infraorder) > Acontiaria (Superfamily) > Aiptasiidae (Family) > Aiptasia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Aiptasia Gosse, 1858
Synonymised
taxa		  Aiptasia couchii (Synonym)
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]

additional source: Fautin, Daphne G. (2011). Hexacorallians of the World., available online at http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/Hexacoral/Anemone2/ [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English trumpet anemone  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Azores [details]
Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Channel Islands [details]
East North Atlantic [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Italy [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
North East Atlantic [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Note  Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [details]
Images 
Aiptasia mutabilis
Aiptasia mutabilis
added on 2012-07-25 - author: Pillon, Roberto ()
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Aiptasia mutabilis
Aiptasia mutabilis
added on 2012-10-08 - author: Pillon, Roberto ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:100859
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Aiptasia mutabilis (Gravenhorst, 1831). 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=100859 on 2013-05-25
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