AQUADICO


Jewel anemone

Corynactis viridis

Distribution: in this Atlantic, Channel, the Mediterranean.

Description: The color of corynactis is very variable: green, pink, purple, white, brown, orange.
The disc polyps measuring 1 cm. The tentacles have a grainy due to batteries cnidoblastes, always end with a bulbous end, the acrosphère.
There are alternating between long tentacles (exocoeles) on the edge of the disc and short tentacles (endocoeles) that are on the disk. For reasons of internal anatomy, corynactis are not true anemones (corallimorphe). Rather, they are devoid of stony coral skeleton.

Housing: between the surface and 100m depth, the corynactis often colonizes the lower rocky overhang or groups in caves in parts often little or no informed in loads. areas

Food: Sea anemones capture small prey, with many equipped with countless poisonous tentacles cells. Once paralyzed, the prey is brought to the mouth.
          
 


Taxonomic classification


Phylum: Cnidarians Class: Anthozoa Sub class: Zoantharia To print in "PDF" format
Order: Corallimorpharia Sub order: ¤¤¤ Family: Corallimorphidae
Genus: corynactis Species: viridis Descriptor: Allman, 1846