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Actiniaria (order)


Identification code: 300252337



Alternative term/s

  • Actinaria
  • anemones, sea
  • sea anemone
  • sea anemones
  • sea anemonies
  • sea-anemones

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Scope note:

Members of an order of solitary coelenterate polyps, named after the terrestrial anemone flower and resembling squat columns with a cluster of stinging tentatcles around the mouth, with which they trap small fishes and invertebrates and draw them into the large interior digestive cavity; they are brightly colored, especially in tropical waters, and reproduce sexually, by budding, or by fission.

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