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Giant Plumose Anemone

metridium farcimen

The Giant Plumose Anemone is a beautiful sea creature that looks like a colorful flower underwater! It waves its tentacles in the currents, waiting for tasty food to float by.

Lebensraum: They live in the ocean along rocky and sandy shores, often found in tide pools.

Aussehen

The Giant Plumose Anemone is a tall, column-shaped invertebrate with a broad oral disc crowned by a dense, feathery mass of white, cream, or sometimes orange-brown tentacles. It stands out due to its substantial size and ornate, flower-like appearance.

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Giant Plumose Anemone
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Giant Plumose Anemone

Kategorie

Invertebrate

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

If cut in half, each piece can grow into a new anemone!

Some anemones can live to be over 100 years old!

They can crawl along the seafloor, but super, super slowly!

They often grow in huge groups, creating an underwater 'flower garden'!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Clone Creation

Giant Plumose Anemone can reproduce by splitting its foot or oral disc because it allows for asexual reproduction and colony formation.

Fähigkeit

Slow Traveler

Giant Plumose Anemone can slowly glide across surfaces using its muscular foot because it helps them find better feeding spots.

Maße und Details

Länge
15-90 cm
Lebenserwartung
5-100 Jahre

Ernährung und Fütterung

It filters tiny food particles and microscopic animals from the surrounding water.

Hauptnahrung

  • plankton
  • detritus
  • small crustaceans
  • larval fish

Nahrungssuche

  • Filter Feeding

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

eaten by

Leather Star

Dermasterias imbricata

Leather stars prey on various sea anemones.

eaten by

California Pleurobranch

Pleurobranchaea californica

This sea slug consumes anemone tissues.

eaten by

Sunflower Sea Star

Pycnopodia helianthoides

A large sea star known to eat anemones.

Merkmale

Auch bekannt als

Giant AnemonePlumose AnemoneSea Flower

Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Always observe marine life from a safe distance.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Was ist der/die/das länge von Giant Plumose Anemone?

15-90 cm

Was ist der/die/das lebenserwartung von Giant Plumose Anemone?

5-100 Jahre

Was frisst Giant Plumose Anemone?

It filters tiny food particles and microscopic animals from the surrounding water.

Wo findet man Giant Plumose Anemone normalerweise?

They live in the ocean along rocky and sandy shores, often found in tide pools.

Wie jagt Giant Plumose Anemone?

Filter Feeding

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