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Latin name – Anemonia viridis
Size – Column up to 5cm tall plus tentacles up to 15cm long
Habitat – Mid shore attached to rock
The snakelocks anemone does not retract its tentacles like the beadlet anemone and so it would quickly dry up out of water. To avoid this it lives further down the shore and in rockpools. It uses its long poisonous tentacles for feeding and protection.
Snakelocks anemones
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