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Adhesive Sea Anemone CRYPTODENDRUM ADHAESIVUM
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Original description As Cryptodendrum adhaesivum, from a specimen collected at Koseir in the Red Sea
Diagnostic field characters Tentacles extremely sticky; short (to 5 mm long), dense, of two forms: those in center of oral disc have narrow stalk with five or more short branches at end (i.e. resembling a miniature glove); those near the edge simple elongate bulbs about 1 mm diameter; at extreme margin is a ring of tentacles like the central ones but with fewer branches. Tentacles of the two forms usually different colours: observed combinations include yellow and pink, blue and gray, green and brown; occasionally tentacles of another colour occur in patches amid those of predominant colour.
Details Oral disc to 300 mm diameter, flat when expanded, but commonly undulating. Entirely covered with tentacles except immediately around mouth, which can be fuchsia, yellow, green, white. Moreover, tentacle stalk and tips may differ in colour. Therefore, may be extremely colourful animal.
Similar species Specimens of Stichodactyla are superficially similar, with many, short tentacles. However, the two distinct types of tentacles arrayed in separate fields is a feature unique to C. adhaesivum. Tentacles of other species may adhere, and pull off the anemone; those of C. adhaesivum remain attached to the anemone.
Distribution Australia to southern Japan and Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia westward to Thailand, Maldives, and the Red Sea
Fish A. clarkii
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