Misplaced Pages

Amakusaplana acroporae

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Species of flatworm

Amakusaplana acroporae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Order: Polycladida
Family: Prosthiostomidae
Genus: Amakusaplana
Species: A. acroporae
Binomial name
Amakusaplana acroporae
Rawlinson, Gillis, Billings & Borneman, 2011

Amakusaplana acroporae, the Acropora-eating flatworm or AEFW, is a species of free-living marine polyclad flatworms in the genus Amakusaplana.

This species preys on the genus Acropora in reef aquariums. These flatworms can grow up to 6 mm and the number of eyes they have increase with body length. They also possess excellent camouflage, hiding on the underside of Acropora coral branches and mimicking the host's color and pigment distribution by extracting fluorescent pigments from the host.

References

  1. Taxonomy and life history of the Acropora-eating flatworm Amakusaplana acroporae nov. sp. (Polycladida: Prosthiostomidae). K. A. Rawlinson, J. A. Gillis, R. E. Billings Jr. and E. H. Borneman, Coral Reefs, September 2011, Volume 30, Issue 3, pages 693-705, doi:10.1007/s00338-011-0745-3
  2. Things that Suck: Acropora Eating Flatworms, by Mitch Carl, in ReefKeeping online magazine
  3. Hume, B.C.C., D’Angelo, C., Cunnington, A., Smith, E.G., Wiedenmann, & J. (2013). The corallivorous flatworm Amakusaplana acroporae: an invasive species threat to coral reefs? Coral Reefs, 33, 267–272. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-013-1101-6
  4. Rawlinson, K.A, & Stella, J.S (2012). Discovery of the corallivorous polyclad flatworm, Amakusaplana acroporae, on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia – the first report from the wild. PLOS ONE, 7(8), 42240-e42245. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042240
  5. Rawlinson, K.A, & Stella, J.S (2012). Discovery of the corallivorous polyclad flatworm, Amakusaplana acroporae, on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia – the first report from the wild. PLOS ONE, 7(8), 42240-e42245. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042240

External links

"Amakusaplana acroporae". The Encyclopedia of Life.

Taxon identifiers
Amakusaplana acroporae


Stub icon

This flatworm- (or platyhelminth-) related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: