Christmas Sea Anemone

Query: Painted urticina

Result: 1^st of 1

Subject:	Christmas Sea Anemone
Poster:	Phoby (phoby@hanafos.com)

Resolution: 1788x1300 File Size: 335906 Bytes Date: 2005:02:07 14:33:35 Upload Date: 2005:02:07 14:32:08

Christmas Sea Anemone

Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A Painted Tealia, Urticina crassicornis (formerly Tealia crassicornis), is also known as the Christmas Anemone, Red and Green Anemone, or Painted Urticina. This large anemone is found in low intertidal and subtidal zones. Column olive green with red splotches - oral disk is greenish with radiating red stripes across tentacles.

Image ID: nerr0808, NOAA National Estuarine Research Reserve Collection
Location: Northern Pacific and Atlantic Oceans

Photo Source:
The NOAA Photo Library http://www.photolib.noaa.gov
The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA) http://www.noaa.gov/

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