- 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.
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- Updated August 2017
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