Marine Species: Actinoporus elegans

(Duchassaing, 1850)

Taxonomy Structure

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Anthozoa
Order: Actiniaria
Family: Aurelianiidae
Genus: Actinoporus
Species: Actinoporus elegans

Species Data:

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Common Name: Elegant anemone
Description: Numerous tentacles with knobs shaped cover a flat and oral disc. Tends to establish associations with various species such as Periclimenes yacatanicus among others.
Habitat: Areas of sand and coral stones at dephts between 3 to 20m.
Color: Tentacles and oral disc from light gray to dark brown.
Dimensions: It has between 18 and 23cm.
Geographical Distribution: Caribbean Sea Western Central Atlantic

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