The Dahlia Anemone

We spent much of the day at the splendid marine aquarium at Macduff. This is the colourful Dahlia Anemone Urticina felina. We think of Dahlias and Anemones as being flowers, but this one is a marine invertebrate animal. U. felina is found in the Arctic Ocean, the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and the northern Atlantic Ocean as far south as the Bay of Biscay and the Gulf of Maine. It can be found on rocks and boulders from the lower shore down to depths of 100 metres. It occurs in rock pools, in crevices and gullies, among the holdfasts of Laminaria spp., in caves and partly buried in gravel.

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