Galapagos Species Database

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Exaiptasia diaphana (Rapp, 1829)

Anemona, Sea anemone

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Cnidaria

Class
Anthozoa

Order
Actiniaria

Family
Aiptasiidae

Genus
Exaiptasia

Species
diaphana

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Aiptasia pulchella Carlgren, 1943, Exaiptasia pallida (Agassiz in Verrill, 1864) (Horton et al., 2021)

Origin: Cryptogenic

Status

IUCN Red List Category: Not evaluated

References

  • Carlton, J. T. Keith, I., & Ruiz, G. M. (2019) Assessing marine bioinvasions in the Galápagos islands: Implications for conservation biology and marine protected areas. Aquatic Invasions, 14(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.3391/ai.2019.14.1.01
  • Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Exaiptasia diaphana", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=18867. Accessed 27 May 2025.