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How to Distinguish from Similar Species: Stomphia didemon grows larger and has a cream to orange column.
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Comprehensive Description
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Biology/Natural History: This anemone is usually attached to shells of the horse mussel, Modiolus modiolus. The anemone above was originally attached to a mussel shell but has moved to a scallop shell. This species will detach and swim away from predators such as the leather star Dermasterias imbricata.
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Habitat
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We found it on a bottom of sand with shelly hash
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Distribution
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Geographical Range: Widespread in temperate and arctic regions of northern hemisphere; including Pacific and Atlantic
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Comprehensive Description
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This subtidal anemone has no acontia, no tubercles on the column wall, column wall is white, or white with orange streaks; tentacles orange with white spots at their bases. Column not more than 3 cm high and not much higher than wide, if any.
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Stomphia coccinea
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Stomphia coccinea is a small reddish, orange or brownish sea anemone in the family Actinostolidae from the North Atlantic, North Pacific and Arctic Ocean. It can swim away when necessary in order to escape a predator.
Morphology
The specific name ‘coccinea’ means ‘scarlet’ and refers to the anemone's distinctive often reddish and orange-striped coloration both on the column and on its up to 80 tentacles. The anemone can grow to a size of 6 cm in diameter, but the anemone has a very flat appearance when retracted.
Ecology
This species attaches itself to rocks and shells, with the most common substrate in northern Europe being the shell of the horse mussel Modiolus modiolus, where, as a suspension feeder it consumes planktonic material. When there is an attack from one of its predators, such as a starfish, or an individual of the nudibranch species Aeolidia papillosa or Eubranchus exiguus, it can release the grip of its disc and float away. If it is successful in escaping, it will soon after attach to a new substrate.[1]
References
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^ Manual, R.L. (1988). British Anthozoa. London: Academic Press. [Synopses of the British Fauna No. 18.]
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Stomphia coccinea: Brief Summary
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Stomphia coccinea is a small reddish, orange or brownish sea anemone in the family Actinostolidae from the North Atlantic, North Pacific and Arctic Ocean. It can swim away when necessary in order to escape a predator.
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Diet
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Generally, anthozoans are primarly carnivorous which prey on sea urchins, gastropods, bivalves, or crustaceans that crawl or swim into their grasp.
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Distribution
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circumarctic boreal to Cape Cod
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Habitat
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sandy, muddy, or rocky habitats; also may attached themselves to hard parts or products of other organisms (shells)
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