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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.

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

Aspecto

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

Categoría

Invertebrate

Rareza

Common

Peligro

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Datos interesantes

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'!

Habilidades especiales

Habilidad

Clone Creation

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

Habilidad

Slow Traveler

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

Medidas y detalles

Longitud
15-90 cm
Esperanza de vida
5-100 años

Dieta y alimentación

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

Alimentos principales

  • plankton
  • detritus
  • small crustaceans
  • larval fish

Método de búsqueda

  • Filter Feeding

Conexiones ecológicas

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.

Rasgos

También conocido como

Giant AnemonePlumose AnemoneSea Flower

Colecciones

Seguridad

Peligro

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Preguntas frecuentes

¿Cuál es el longitud de Giant Plumose Anemone?

15-90 cm

¿Cuál es el esperanza de vida de Giant Plumose Anemone?

5-100 años

¿Qué come Giant Plumose Anemone?

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

¿Dónde se encuentra normalmente Giant Plumose Anemone?

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

¿Cómo caza Giant Plumose Anemone?

Filter Feeding

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