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Aiptasia pallida gets reclassified with new genus


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An Aiptasia by Any Other Name ...

The reclassification of Aiptasia pallida into its own new genus doesn't really really make much of a difference for reefkeepers who are battling this age-old pest.  Still, it's always good to be up-to-date on science pertaining to our hobby. It's also not every day that a species described over 150 years ago gets reclassified into a new genus.

Also of interest: Ragactis lucida, a curly-cue/knobby tropical "Aiptasia" aquarists sometimes encounter, gets moved to a new genus, Laviactis.  The new genus is now reclassified into the family Aiptasiidae (Ragactis used to be classified outside the family, but DNA shows they below to in the same family tree as other Aiptasia).

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Aiptasia pulchella or Exaiptasia pallida.  Photo by Tim Wijgerde.  Learn more about the potential three-way symbiosis between Aiptasia, dinoflagellate, and cyanobacteria.

The new morphological revisions are published in the latest issue of ZooTaxa.





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