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Pale Anemone
Exaiptasia diaphana
Exaiptasia diaphana, the pale anemone, is a species of sea anemone in the genus Exaiptasia.
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Description
Exaiptasia diaphana is semitranslucent brown, gray, or white. The brown color is caused by the mutualistic photosynthetic zooxanthellae, Symbiodinium microadriaticum, found in the anemone's tissue. E. diaphana has up to 96 tentacles with two rows of cinclides that have protruding acontia that all encircle the oral disk. The acontia can be protruded when the anemone is disturbed. The tentacles can have a spread of up to 8 cm (3 in). The body can grow up to 5.1 cm (2 in) tall and 1.3 cm (0.5 in) wide.
What it does
Exaiptasia diaphana is prey for the sea slugs Berghia coerulescens and Spurilla neapolitana.
Wikipedia: “Ecology”
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 785634.