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Painted Anemone
Urticina grebelnyi
Urticina grebelnyi, commonly known as the painted anemone or Christmas anemone, is a large, colorful sea anemone found from Alaska to Southern California, at depths of 0 to 30 meters, often in high-current rocky habitats. They can live up to 80 years.
From the article Urticina grebelnyi on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Painted anemones have a cylindrical column, about 15 cm diameter, which is covered in non-adhesive warts, and mottled with irregular patches of green, yellow, red, and white. The oral disk is more uniformly yellow-green or pale lilac in color. Large specimens can have up to 200 tentacles, which are generally the same color as the oral disk, often with reddish-pink or brown bands and blunt-ended tips.
In human culture
Painted anemones are sessile, and feed opportunistically by catching crabs, urchins, mussels, gastropods, chitons, barnacles, and fish with their tentacles. The tip of each tentacle contains stinging cells that can paralyze prey. The stinging tentacles can also be used to fend of predators, which include various species of nudibranchs, sea stars, and snails.
Wikipedia: “Natural History”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 492672.