Aiptasiidae () |
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sessile; marine; depth range 0 - 50 m |
Atlantic and the Mediterranean: Azores Islands, Ireland to the Canary Islands. |
Diameter of the foot: 2.5 cm. Oral disc, tentacles not included/understood: 6 cm; cuts vertical, 20 cm. 136 tentacles: are laid out in 6 crowns around the siphonoglyphe; each one of them can measure up to 6 cm length. Coloring is fluctuating, rear related to the density of symbiotic algae, zooxanthella the, present ones within fabrics. The tentacles more or less transparent; and are avoided reasons in band or reticules, of white color to green, absent at ecotype I (Ref. 358). |
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Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. 123251)
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