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Protanthea
Sign in to saveProtanthea simplex is a species of sea anemone found in deep water off the coasts of north west Europe. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Protanthea.
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It sits within the topics Gonactiniidae, Hexacorallia genera and Monotypic Cnidaria genera.
Its subject is documented across 3 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumCnidaria
- ClassAnthozoa
- OrderActiniaria
- FamilyGonactiniidae
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- 1
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- 3
- Family
- Gonactiniidae
- Collections
- USNM
- Recorded in
- Puerto Rico
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Gonactiniidae
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- Sea Loch Anemone.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
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Protanthea simplex is a species of sea anemone found in deep water off the coasts of north west Europe. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Protanthea.
==Description== P. simplex is a delicate sea anemone. The tentacles are non-retractable and have a frosty appearance and are usually held outstretched. The column is salmon pink, flared below the tentacles and reaches lengths of up to two centimetres. It has a flattened, lightly adherent base bulging out below the pedal disc. There are up to 200 slender, translucent, white or pale pink tentacles up to one and a half centimetres long arranged in five rings. When the orangeish-pink gonads are ripe, they may be visible through the wall of the column.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Protanthea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.