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Anemones are large polyp-shaped cnidarians. Metridium is the common, large anemone found in Woods Hole. It has numerous tentacles and feeds by trapping animals in these tentacles where they are killed or stunned by venomous cnidicils. The prey is then engulfed in the sac-like body and digested. Anemones look like flowers but are in fact animals and are even capable of a slow, clumsy locomotion.
Gosner, K.L., A Field Guide to the Atlantic Seashore, 1979, Houghton Mifflin Company Barnes, R.D., Invertebrate Zoology, 1980, Saunders College and Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
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Contracted animal |
Pair of animals collected from Sandwich Jetter at the Cape Cod Canal. June 4, 1965 |
P.J. Oldham
Specimen on rock, collected at Crab Ledge, Chatham, MA
Sep. 30 1965 |
P.J. Oldham
Specimen on rock, collected at Crab Ledge, Chatham, MA
Sep. 30 1965 |
P.J. Oldham
Specimen on rock, collected at Crab Ledge, Chatham, MA
Sep. 30 1965 |
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