Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Anthozoa > Class Hexacorallia > Order Actiniaria > Suborder Enthemonae > Superfamily Metridioidea > Family Aiptasiidae > Genus Aiptasia

Aiptasia couchii Gosse

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Aiptasia*	Gosse, 1858	accepted genus name

Literature

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
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additional source	May, Walther. (1912). Gomera, die Waldinsel der Kanaren. Reisetagebuch eines Zoologen. Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Karlsruhe. 24: 50-272.
additional source	Fischer, P. (1874). Recherches sur les actinies des cotes [sic] océaniques de France. Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, 10, 193-244
additional source	Stephenson, T. A. (1935). The British Sea Anemones. Volume II. The Ray Society. London. pp. 426.
additional source	Gosse, P.H., 1860. Actinologia Britannica. A history of the British sea-anemones and corals. London: Van Voorst : pp. i-xl, 1-362.
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additional source	Pax, F. (1909). Aktinienstudien. I. Polyparium ambulans. II. Aktinien von Gomera. III. Bolocera norvegica, eine neue Aktinie von der Westküste Norwegens. Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft, 45, 325-344
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additional source	Pennington, A. S. (1885). British zoophytes: an introduction to the Hydrozoa, Actinozoa, and Polyzoa fround in Great Britain, Ireland, and the Channel Islands. L. Reeve & Co., London, 363 pp.
additional source	Stephens, J. (1905). A list of Irish Coelenterata, including the Ctenophora. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 25: 25-92.
additional source	Pax F. (1908). Die Aktinienfauna Westafrikas. Denkschrift. medizin. naturwiss. Gesellschaft Jena. 13: 463-504.
additional source	Hand, C. H.; Uhlinger, K. R. (1995). Asexual reproduction by transverse fission and some anomalies in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. Invertebrate Biology, 114(1): 9-18
additional source	Pax, F. (1910). Diagnosen neuer westindischer Actinien. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 36(8-9): 176-179
additional source	Schmidt, H., 1969. Die nesselkapseln der aktinien und ihre differentialdiagnostische bedeutung. The nematocysts of the sea anemones and their importance for differential-diagnosis. Helgoländer wiss. Meeresunters. 19 : 284-317.
additional source	Weill, R., 1934. Contribution à l'étude des Cnidaires et de leurs nématocystes. II. Valeur taxonomique du cnidôme. Trav. Stn zool. Wimereux 11 : 349-701.
additional source	Manuel RL. (1979) Some new records of Anthozoa from British waters. J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K. 59:393-397
additional source	Johnson, J. Y. (1861). Notes on the sea-anemones of Madeira, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 298-306.
additional source	Teissier, G., 1950. Inventaire de la faune marine de Roscoff. Cnidaires et cténaires. Trav. biol. Roscoff. n. ser. suppl. 1: 1-43.
additional source	Stephenson, T. A. (1920). On the classification of Actiniaria. Part I. -- Forms with acontia and forms with a mesogloeal sphincter. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. 64, 2, (256): 425-574.
additional source	Stephenson, T. A. (1929). On the nematocysts of sea anemones. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 16(1): 173-201
additional source	Haeckel, E. (1876). Arabische Korallen. Ein Ausflug nach den Korallenbänken des Rothen Meeres und ein Blick in das Leben der Korallenthiere Reimer, Berlin. 48 pp. 6 pls.
additional source	Andrews, W. (1872). On the inhabitants of the rock-pools and caves of Dingle Bay. Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Dublin, 6, 1, 16-19
additional source	Pax, F. (1912). Les actinies de la côte du Pérou. Gauthier-Villars, Imprimeur-Libraire. Paris., volume 9, pp. 28-01
additional source	Watzl, O. (1922). Die Aktiniarien der Bahamainseln. Arkiv för Zoologi. 14(24): 1-89.
additional source	Hand, C. (1961). Two new acontiate New Zealand sea anemones. Trans. Soc. New Zealand. Zool. 1(4): 75-89.
additional source	Haddon, A. C. (1898). The Actiniaria of Torres Straits. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, 6, 2, 393-520
additional source	Stephenson, T. A. (1929). On methods of reproduction as specific characters. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 16(1): 131-172
additional source	Mathew, K. (1979). Studies on the biology of a sea anemone, Anthopleura nigrescens (Verrill) from the south west coast of India. Bulletin of the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Cochin, 10, 75-158
additional source	Stephenson, T. A. (1928). The British Sea Anemones. Volume I. The Ray Society. London., volume 1, pp. 148.
additional source	Schmidt, H. (1970). Anthopleura stellula (Actiniaria, Actiniidae) and its reproduction by transverse fission. Marine Biology, 5, 245-255
additional source	Manuel, R. L. (1977). A redescription of Edwardsia beautempsi and E. timida (Actiniaria: Edwardsidae). Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 18, 483-497
additional source	Pax, F.; Müller, I. (1962). Die Anthozoenfauna der Adria / Fauna antozoa Jadrana. Fauna et Flora Adriatica, 3, 1-343
additional source	Carlgren, O. (1949). A survey of the Ptychodactiaria, Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria. Kungliga Svenska Vet- enskapsakadamiens Handlingar. 1: 1–121.

Genbank

Citation

Rodríguez, E.; Fautin, D; Daly, M. (2025). World List of Actiniaria. Aiptasia couchii Gosse. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:100857