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Phylum Cnidaria > Class Anthozoa > Subclass Zoantharia/Hexacorallia > Order Ceriantharia
Small-mouth cerianthid
Awaiting identification*
updated Nov 2019
Where seen? This cerianthid with a tiny mouth is sometimes seen on our Northern shores. In seagrass meadows and coral rubble.

Features: 2-4cm in diameter. The outer tentacles are elegantly slim and tapering, in various colours sometimes banded. The inner tentacles are very short, tapering to sharp tips and usually held closed with the tips touching, forming a cone around a tiny mouth. Body column slender, may be pale or dark.

Beting Bronok, Jul 08

Inner tentacles very short around tiny mouth.

Pulau Hantu, Jun 09

Pulau Hantu, Jun 09

*Species are difficult to positively identify without close examination.
On this website, the animals are grouped by external features for convenience of display.

Small-mouth cerianthids on Singapore shores
On wildsingapore flickr

Other sightings on Singapore shores


Tanah Merah, Oct 09

Tanah Merah, Jun 09

Changi, May 08


Changi, Oct 07
Photo shared by Toh Chay Hoon on her flikr.

Beting Bronok, Jun 17
Photo shared by Loh Kok Sheng on facebook.

Beting Bronok, Jun 18
Photo shared by Loh Kok Sheng on facebook.


Tanah Merah, Sep 09
Photo shared by James Koh on his blog.

Cyrene Reef, May 08
Photo shared by Toh Chay Hoon on her flikr.


Seringat Kias, Jul 11
Shared by Loh Kok Sheng on his blog.

Seringat Kias, Apr 12
Photo shared by Loh Kok Sheng on his blog.

Pulau Sudong, Dec 09
Photo shared by Toh Chay Hoon on her blog.
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