Anemones And Corals

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

This episode of CreatureCast was made by Lee Stevens, an undergraduate at Brown University. The music is by Transient, and the video is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. Check out CreatureCast.org for more stories and videos about the unexpected world of animals.

Coral reefs are bustling cities of marine life, until rising ocean temperatures turn them into ghost towns. Can reefs spring back from devastating bleaching events? Ari Daniel Shapiro and researcher Dr. Randi Rotjan of the New England Aquarium, journey to the remote Phoenix Islands to find out. Photo credit: Page Gill, NOAA Download a transcript of this podcast read moreDuration: 5:07Published: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:53:42 +0000

Description: Sea anemone Actinauge richardi covered in Amphipods sp. and there are also some Mysids sp. present Item Type: Image Title: Actinauge richardi Copyright: SERPENT project Species: Actinauge richardi, Mysid sp., Amphipod sp. Site: Atlantic -- North Sea -- West of Shetland -- Faroe-Shetland Channel -- BrugdanNorth Sea -- West of Shetland -- Faroe-Shetland Channel -- Brugdan Site Description: Seafloor Depth (m): 480 Countries: Faroe Islands Habitat: Benthic Rig: Stena Don Project Partners: Statoil, Oceaneering ROV: Magnum 070, Sea Owl 590 Deposited By: Miss Moira MacLean Deposited On: 14 December 2010

Description: Plumose anemones attached to the subsea structure of the Thistle platform in the North Sea Item Type: Image Title: Plumose anemones in the North Sea Species: Metridium senile, Urticina sp. Behaviour: Attached to riser Site: Atlantic -- North SeaNorth Sea Site Description: Seafloor Depth (m): 165 Countries: UK -- North Sea Habitat: Temperate Rig: Thistle A Platform Project Partners: Rovtech, Lundin Petroleum, iicorr Deposited By: Rob Curry Deposited On: 24 May 2007

South Pacific Ocean, Duration 36 seconds

South Pacific Ocean, Duration 20 seconds

Coral Sea, Shot at night, Duration 13 seconds

Macrodactyla doreensis is not the primary subject of the video clip; the primary subject is Amphiprion clarkii (Clark's anemonefish). Coral Sea, Shot at dusk, Duration 21 seconds

South Pacific Ocean, Duration 10 seconds

South Pacific Ocean, Duration 12 seconds

South Pacific Ocean, Duration 11 seconds

Cerbère Pyrénées-Orientales France

Klitmøller, Thy

Sødringholm, Randers Fjord

Nordsømuseet Hirtshals

Nordsømuseet Hirtshals

Limfjorden Ertebølle

Kattegatcentret Grenå

Lophelia pertusa coral, with opened polyps, attached to an authigenic carbonate rock.Source: Image courtesy of Lophelia II 2009: Deepwater Coral Expedition: Reefs, Rigs, and Wrecks, NOAA/OER.

Pectinia alcicornisPectinia alcicornis - Great Barrier Reef, Australia.The characteristic appearance of a colony in a shallow lagoon.From http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0297Australian Institute of Marine Science

1-5 Corynactis Viritis, 6. Bologera Eques, 7. Zoanthus Sulcatus, 8. Z. Alderi, 9-10. Zoanthus Coucnii, 11. Aureliania Augusta, 12. A. Meteocera, 13. Capnea Sanguinea.

Gorgonias: Muricea specifera.