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Striated actinia
Actinia striata Rizzi
37.664, -0.71968
Field Notes
Description:
Animal Kingdom; Phylum: Cnidaria; Class Anthozoa; Subclass Hexacorallia; Order Actiniaria; Suborder Enthemonae; Superfamily: Actinioidea: Family: Actinidae.
Actinia striata is a solitary sea anemone. The cylindrical column can grow to a height and diameter of 3 cm (1.2 in) and the foot flares out to a diameter of 6 cm (2.4 in). The crown consists of six whorls of tentacles making 196 tentacles in all. The column is variable in color, smooth and finely striated, reddish, dull green or brown, with darker streaks. The tentacles are reddish or greenish and the oral disc is plain red and somewhat transparent. The tentacles can be fully retracted, and then the sea anemone resembles a striped gelatinous mound.
Habitat:
On the underside of a loose stone on the rocky bottom of the Mediterranean coast. Little hydrodynamism. Punta de La Raja (La Manga. Murcia).
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