Swimming Anemone

Swimming Anemone
English Common Name
Swimming Anemone
Scientific name
Boloceroides mcmurrichi
Taxonomy
Order: Actiniaria, Family: Boloceroididae
Size
About 2 cm – 3 cm in diameter
Species Distribution
Indo-Pacific
When removed from the surface it is clinging to, it starts swimming using tentacles like a jellyfish. The swimming anemone can regenerate by fragmentation; a fragment of a tentacle can form one swimming anemone.

Updated August 2017

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