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| Phylum Cnidaria > Class Anthozoa > Subclass Zoantharia/Hexacorallia > Order Actiniaria |
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anemone Dofleinia sp. Family Actiniidae updated Mar 09 Where seen? This beautiful sea anemone resembles blown glass and is sometimes seen on sand and near seagrasses on some of our shores. Glass sea anemone features: Diameter with tentacles extended 20cm or more. The oral disk 5-8cm in diameter. One ring of shorter tentacles (about the diameter of the oral disk) and another ring of long tentacles (10-20cm). The transparent tentacles and oral disk are covered with small bumps that are white, sometimes reddish. In some, the bumps are densely grouped. There is a black-and-white ring on the base of each tentacle where it attaches to the oral disk.The body column is smooth almost transparent with regular wide smooth fluted ridges along the column length. It does not seem to have verrucae. The Striped or Armed Anemone (Dofleinia armata) found in Australia is considered extremely dangerous as it can inflict painful stings that take months to heal. |
 Beting Bronok, Aug 05  |
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Glass anemones on Singapore shores
 Changi, Jul 07 |
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 Beting Bronok, Aug 05  |
 Beting Bronok, Jun 06  |
 Changi, Aug 02  |
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IKAN-Unterwasserachiv, Frankfurt. 305 pp.|
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