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Peachia
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Peachia

Peachia is a genus of sea anemone in the family Haloclavidae. Members of this genus typically burrow into soft substrates. The only part of the animal that is normally visible is the oral disc and tentacles which lie flat on the sand in a star shape. The type species is Peachia cylindrica (Reid, 1848).

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7 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Twelve-tentacled Parasitic Anemone

speciesPeachia quinquecapitata

Clock face anemone

speciesPeachia cylindrica

Medusa anemone

speciesPeachia neozealandica

Twelve-tentacle Parasitic Anemone

speciesPeachia parasitica

Peachia boeckii

speciesPeachia boeckii

Peachia boecki

speciesPeachia boecki

Peachia hastata

speciesPeachia hastata

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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 47815.