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Cerianthus filiformis

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Cerianthus filiformis, known commonly as the tube anemone, is a species of marine Cnidaria in the family Cerianthidae. Cerianthus filiformis is widespread throughout the tropical waters of the Indo- west Pacific area. Cerianthus filiformis,whose physical resemblance can be open to confusion with its cousin the sea anemone, has a stretched and muscularised body which can reach 35 cm. This latter has the shape of a big polyp with numerous mobile tentacles. Cerianthus filiformis feeds on all the small-sized and edible drifting food which pass within the reach of its tentacles.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0