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Carpet anemone
Stichodactyla sp.
Order Actiniaria

These small Silversides (Atherinomorus sp.) blundered into a carpet anemone as the tide receeded. After a brief struggle, the fishes lay still, paralysed, and the carpet anemone proceeded to fold its large oral disc over them.

 

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