Cloak Anemone

Calliactis palliata

• Group: Anemone

The cloak anemone gets its name from riding on shells, draping its broad base over a snail or a hermit crab's home and travelling along with it. It lives solitary on fine sand and silt from shallow ground down into the bathyal deep, catching food on its tentacles while sharing its host's leftovers.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Cnidaria › Hexacorallia › Actiniaria › Hormathiidae › Calliactis

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 1658483.