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Magnificent Sea Anemone (Heteractis_magnifica)
Dauin, Oct 4, 2012.
Is an anemone that can grow up to 1 metre (3 feet) in diameter in the wild. It is often found in association with anemonefish, or clownfish, such as the cinnamon anemonefish (Amphiprion melanopus), Clark's anemonefish (A. clarkii), common clownfish (A. ocellaris), blackfinned anemonefish (A. nigripes), true clownfish (A. percula), and the pink skunk clownfish (A. perideraion). Juvenile Threespot dascyllus (Dascyllus trimaculatus) also commonly associate with this sea anemone. H. magnifica was featured in the Pixar Animations film Finding Nemo.
Is a species of sea anemone that lives in the Indo-Pacific area.
As you can see in this case the anemone is shared by a family of Amphiprion ocellaris and a porcelain crab.
The magnificent sea anemone, also known as Ritteri anemone, is a species of sea anemone belonging to the Stichodactylidae family native from the Indo-Pacific area.
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http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/invertebrates/seaanemone/Seaanemoneprintout.shtml
It is basically the body of the anemone. Internally it contains reproductory, digestive organs etc.
This one may have been 50 cm in diameter or even more. As mentioned above they can be up to 1 m diameter. Their tentacles are a very good housing for all kinds of animals: clownfishes, shrimps and crabs. These are all resistant to the venom in the tentacles and live this way protected from predators. I think the anemone benefits from them because when they eat they release food scraps that she can also take up. Is a nice symbiotic community :-) Posted 9 years ago