花海葵，Phymanthus crucifer，是到目前为止最引人注目的无脊椎动物之一，它仅从佛罗里达州和周围的加勒比海地区提供，或者我们认为。巴厘岛水族馆shared some photos of a recent batch of ‘flower anemones’ from Indonesia that are virtually identical to the beautiful polyps the hobby has enjoyed from Caribbean habitats.
起初，我们认为这种印度太平洋海葵可能是加勒比海的新物种Epicystis.但是对我们来说并不为人所知，似乎Epicystis已折叠到属Phymanthus，在印度太平洋地区很好地表示。
Phymanthus其特征是大型开放的口腔盘，周围被触手包围。借助这种新的分类，我们在印度太平洋中发现了多个海葵的例子，例如我们心爱的花海葵。
The popular tidepooling website新加坡的野生海岸有一个特别大的画廊，包括Phymanthus海葵，，，，其中许多共享一个相似的形状和身体的计划as our beloved flower anemones. Better yet, their daylight images and these ‘reef tank’ photos from Bali Aquarium reveal that there’s a whole new category of Indo-Pacific Flower Anemones with a spectrum of colors and patterns all their own.
来自巴厘岛的新花海葵，可能在印度太平洋地区广泛地说，看起来比真实的颜色更加隐秘Phymanthus crucifer，但我们还认为，关于经典的花海葵，直到野生和夸张的色彩开始被发现。We hope this ‘discovery’ of Flower Anemones in the Indo-Pacific will result in a similar explosion in the availability and diversity of this popular animal in reef tanks, but only time will tell whether this new find is the tip of the iceberg, or just a curious footnote of biogeography.
