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Weed anemone menace in marine aquaria and its management

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Title Weed anemone menace in marine aquaria and
its management
 
Creator Saravanan, Raju
Sadiq, I Syed
Saravanakumar, B
Jayakumar, R
 
Subject Seaweed
 
Description Sea anemones are coming under the Phylum Cnidaria and Class Anthozoa. Like many Cnidarians, sea anemones contain specialized cells, known as cnidocytes or nematocytes, in
their body column, oral disc, pharynx, tentacles and mesenterial filaments. Sea anemones of Aiptasia genus
are distributed in temperate and tropical oceans attached
to any hard substratum. The genus Aiptasia includes 13
species all equipped with 96 tentacles which are filled with nematocysts to sting their prey. The name Aiptasia itself
means ‘beautiful’, however in marine aquarium keeping
even if few Aiptasia are found in the tank it should not be taken so lightly. A hardy species it can explode in numbers within weeks. Aiptasia is a zooxanthellate anemone and survives well in the illuminated marine aquarium due to
the photosynthetic activity of its algal symbiont.
 
Publisher ICAR - Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2018
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/14009/1/MFIS%20238_6.pdf
Saravanan, Raju and Sadiq, I Syed and Saravanakumar, B and Jayakumar, R (2018) Weed anemone menace in marine aquaria and its management. Marine Fisheries Information Service; Technical and Extension Series (238). pp. 28-29. ISSN 0254-380 X