Dahlia Anemone (Urticina felina)

Dahlia Anemone

The northern red anemone or dahlia anemone, Urticina felina, is a marine invertebrate found in the north Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. Synonyms include Tealia crassicornis, Tealia felina, and Urticina crassicornis.

The colour is variable. The sea anemone lives attached to rock on the seabed from the lower tidal limit down to a depth of 100 m and also attached to other organisms.

U felina is found in the Arctic Ocean, the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and the northern Atlantic Ocean as far south as the Bay of Biscay and the Gulf of Maine.

U felina is found on rocks and boulders from the lower shore down to depths of 100 metres. It occurs in rock pools, in crevices and gullies, among the holdfasts of Laminaria spp., in caves and partly buried in gravel.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urticina_felina - 22.11.2011

Dahlia Anemone

These water-dwelling plants are very evocative of flowers, so that this becomes noticeable in the name of the species, family (Sea anemones) and class (Anthozoa).

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