Urticina clandestina  (Sea Anemone)

Photo of Urticina clandestina by <a href="http://www.seastarsofthepacificnorthwest.info/">Neil McDaniel</a>

© Neil McDaniel (Photo ID #58538)

Photographer's Submitted Details

Photo Location Howe Sound
Photographer Neil McDaniel
Habitat soft substrates
Photo Date
Upload Date December 21, 2013
Elevation (m)
Latitude 49.3772222222222
Longitude -123.289166666667
Photo ID # 58538
Comments Oral disc with crown of tentacles up to 15 cm in diameter. Lives with oral disc lying just at the surface of the sediment. Column usually red or pink. Specimens on this coast formerly known as Urticina coriacea. Described by Sanamyan, Sanamyan and McDaniel 2013. See Invert. Zool. Vol. 10. No. 2. P. 199-216. Intertidal and subtidal.