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The Giant Green Anemone is a colorful sea creature that loves to wiggle its tentacles in the water! These amazing animals can stick to rocks and provide homes for tiny fish.
Hábitat: They live along the rocky shores of the Pacific Ocean.
The Giant Green Anemone is a large, vibrant green sea anemone with a thick, columnar body and hundreds of short, conical tentacles. Its bright green color comes from symbiotic algae, and it often has reddish or pinkish tips on its tentacles, making it stand out in tide pools.





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Common
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A giant green anemone can live over 80 years, often staying in the same rock crevice!
Some brave sea slugs can actually eat these anemones without getting stung!
They have no brain, no heart, and no lungs, yet they are fantastic predators!
When the tide goes out, they pull in their tentacles and shrink into a wobbly green blob.
Giant Green Anemone has tiny algae living inside its tissues that helps them get energy from sunlight, like a living solar panel.
Giant Green Anemone can cling firmly to rocks using a powerful muscular foot that helps them withstand strong ocean currents and waves.
Giant Green Anemone can reproduce by slowly splitting its body in two, because this helps them create new clones without a partner.
An ambush predator, it grabs small creatures floating by or swimming too close.
Elliptochloris marina
Provides anemone with food from photosynthesis.
Cancer productus
Snagged by tentacles as it scuttles by.
Pagurus hirsutiusculus
Caught unaware while exploring tide pool.
Aeolidia papillosa
Predatory sea slug that consumes anemone parts.
Los animales solitarios viven solos durante la mayor parte de su vida y solo interactúan con otros para aparearse o cuidar de sus crías.
Colorido describe a organismos u objetos que exhiben una amplia variedad de colores brillantes y distintivos.
Los filtradores obtienen nutrientes filtrando partículas de alimentos suspendidos y pequeños organismos del agua.
Este rasgo identifica a los organismos cuya dieta consiste total o principalmente en tejido animal.
Los hábitats marinos abarcan todos los entornos de agua salada de los océanos de la Tierra, sustentando una inmensa diversidad de vida acuática.
Peligro
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Do not touch, as their tentacles can sting.
25 cm
70 años
An ambush predator, it grabs small creatures floating by or swimming too close.
They live along the rocky shores of the Pacific Ocean.
Ambush
30 m
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