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| Phylum Cnidaria > Class Anthozoa > Subclass Zoantharia/Hexacorallia > Order Actiniaria |
| Glass
anemone Dofleinia armata Family Actiniidae updated Jul 2024 Where seen? This beautiful anemone resembles blown glass and is sometimes seen on sand and near seagrasses on our Northern shores. Sometimes on our Southern shores. Also called the Striped or Armed Anemone in Australia. Features: Diameter with tentacles extended 20cm or more. The oral disk 5-8cm in diameter. Tentacles not many. One ring of about 20 long tentacles (10-20cm), another ring of about the same number of shorter tentacles (length about the diameter of the oral disk). Tentacles often transparent, but sometimes beige or dark red. Tentacles and oral disk are covered with tiny bumps that are white, sometimes reddish. In some, the bumps are densely grouped. There is a black-and-white ring on the base of the longer tentacles where they attach to the oral disk. The mouth is ringed by white spots. The body column is smooth almost transparent with regular wide smooth fluted ridges along the column length. It does not seem to have bumps (verrucae).
Sometimes mistaken for the Rough anemone which has translucent tentacles with small brown spots, dark blotches on the oral disk and rows of white bumps on the body column. Status and threats: As at 2024, it is assessed not to be approaching the criteria for being listed among the threatened animals in Singapore. |
 Beting Bronok, Jun 10  Rings of long tentacles and short tentacles. |
 Beting Bronok, Aug 05  |
 Beting Bronok, Jun 06  |
| Glass anemones on Singapore shores |
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| Other sightings on Singapore shores |
Pulau Ubin, Dec 12
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