Swimming anemone - Phlyctenactis tuberculosa
Description:
This species is closed up during the day. At night it opens out to feed with hundreds of tentacles. It is unusual in that, whilst often attached, it can let go of the bottom and drift around in the current until it finds more food
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- Anthozoa (anemones and corals)
- Hexacorallia (hexacorallians)
- Actiniaria (sea anemones)
- Enthemonae
- Actinioidea
- Actiniidae
- Phlyctenactis
- Phlyctenactis tuberculosa (Wandering anemone)
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