Sealoch Anemone

Protanthea simplex

• Group: Anemone

The sealoch anemone clings to shaded rock in the dim circalittoral and on down into bathyal water, well suited to the murk of Scottish sea lochs. It lives singly, each one a slender translucent column topped by a crown of fine tentacles.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Cnidaria › Hexacorallia › Actiniaria › Gonactiniidae › Protanthea

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 100913.