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Sea Anemones

(Actiniaria), an order of marine Coelenterata from the class of coral polyps (Anthozoa). The sea anemones are solitary polyps and rarely form colonies. The body of the sea anemone is cylindrical (from several mm to 1.5 m across) and sacciform, with a muscular foot by means of which the animal can move slowly. On the upper end of the body there is a mouth surrounded by a crown of feelers. Species which lead an attached, fossorial, and free-swimming life are also known. The anemones are usually brightly colored.

Anemones are widely found; however, the majority dwell in tropical and subtropical waters. In the USSR they are found in the Black Sea, as well as in the northern and far eastern seas. Anemones are predators and feed on various small animals and even small fish; there are also mud-eating forms. The prey is seized by feelers armed with stinging cells, the “shots” of which paralyze or kill the victim. They can cause painful stings to human beings. Certain anemones live symbiotically with hermit crabs and other invertebrates.

REFERENCES

Dogel’, V. A. Zoologiia bespozvonochnykh, 5th ed. Moscow, 1959.
Zhizn’ zhivotnykh, vol. 1. Moscow, 1968. Pages 299–306.

F. A. PASTERNAK

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They had not intended to spend the afternoon, but found themselves too fascinated to turn away from the breakers bursting upon the rocks and from the many kinds of colorful sea life starfish, crabs, mussels, sea anemones, and, once, in a rock-pool, a small devilfish that chilled their blood when it cast the hooded net of its body around the small crabs they tossed to it.

The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack View in context

I had been restless, dreaming most disagreeably that I was drowned, and that sea anemones were feeling over my face with their soft palps.

The Time Machine by Wells, H.G. View in context