Image of Strawberry anemones
Description:
Depth 8 m. Large clones of these anemones decorate vertical rocks in vivid colors. Has clubbed tentacles, a feature of true corals, but it lacks the corals' calcium carbonate skeleton. Its stinging cells, nematocysts, are unusually potent. Each anemone 2 cm. wide.
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life (biota)
- Cellular
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (animals)
- Cnidaria (cnidarians)
- Anthozoa (anemones and corals)
- Hexacorallia (hexacorallians)
- Corallimorpharia (corallimorpharians)
- Corallimorphidae
- Corynactis (Jewel Anemones)
- Corynactis californica (Strawberry anemones)
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- 2005 California Academy of Sciences
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- Lovell and Libby Langstroth
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