Animalia > Cnidaria > Anthozoa > Actiniaria > Actinostolidae > Stomphia > Stomphia coccinea

Stomphia coccinea (swimming anemone)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Stomphia coccinea is a small reddish, orange or brownish sea anemone in the family Actinostolidae from the North Atlantic, North Pacific and Arctic Ocean. It can swim when necessary in order to escape a predator.
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Infraspecies

Stomphia churchiae churchiae

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Berwickshire and North Northumberland Coast 160731 England/Scotland, United Kingdom  
Eileanan agus Sgeiran Lios mór 2816 Scotland, United Kingdom  
Moray Firth 373987 Scotland, United Kingdom  
Papa Stour 5132 Scotland, United Kingdom  
Sunart 25320 Scotland, United Kingdom

Predators

Aeolidia papillosa (shag-rug aeolis)[1]
Crossaster papposus (spiny sun star, common sun star)[1]
Gephyreaster swifti[2]

External References

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Citations

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♦ 1Predators of Sea Anemones, J. R. Ottaway, Tuatara: Volume 22, Issue 3, February 1977, pp. 213 - 220
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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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