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Yellow Cluster Anemone
The Parazoanthus corals have soft bodies covered with a leathery skin, called the cuticle, which gives them protection. The bodies are usually fluted and they have long, thin tentacles. Their colors can be yellow, golden, orange, yellow-brown, or green-brown, and with some being dark red or wine colored. Their color will often contrasts with the color of their host organism, most likely to prevent predation.
Spotted in the back of Serra Gelada, between Altea and Benidorm, Alicante (Spain).
''Parazoanthus axinellae'', the Yellow Cluster Anemone is a zoanthid coral found on the southern Atlantic coasts of Europe and in the Mediterranean Sea. Zoanthids differ from true sea anemones, in having a different internal anatomy and in forming true colonies in which the individual animals are connected by a common tissue, called the coenenchyme.
