Aiptasia
Translingual
Wikispecies
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Aiptasia mutablis
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀεί (aeí, “always”) and πετάω (petáō, “spread wings”), coined by Philip Henry Gosse in reference to the constantly extended tentacles of the anemones.[1]
Proper noun
Aiptasia f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Aiptasiidae – the triffids.
Hypernyms
- (class): Animalia - kingdom; Cnidaria - phylum; Anthozoa - class; Actiniaria - order; Aiptasiidae - family
References
- 1860, Philip Henry Gosse, A history of the British Sea-Anemones and Corals: Actinologia Britannica. With coloured figures of the species and principal varietes. By Philip Henry Gosse, page 154