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 › Abécédaire › Cylinder anemone
Mediterranean species :

Cylinder anemone

At any sign of danger, it disappears inside its tube!
Did you know ?
They come in an array of colours, such as white, brown or beige but also purple or bright green.

The cylinder anemone grows a long tube burrowed deep into the sand and will disappear inside it if it senses danger. It measures 30 to 40cm in diameter with two whorls of tentacles of varying lengths. It is a hermaphrodite animal that captures small planktonic organisms by paralysing them. The species is endemic to the Mediterranean where it lives on sandy or muddy bottoms and among Posidonia rhizomes between the surface and 40m deep.

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Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Anthozoa
Order: Ceriantharia
Family: Cerianthidae
Scientific name: Cerianthus membranaceus

French: Cérianthe
Spanish: Cerianto
Italian: Fiore di mare
German: Zylinderrose

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