Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Exaiptasia diaphana
Anemona, Sea anemone
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
- 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.