Carpet anemone
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Carpet anemone with Clark's anemonefish . |
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Stichodactyla haddoni | ||||||||||||
Saville-Kent , 1893 |
The carpet anemone ( Stichodactyla haddoni ) is a sea anemone from the tropical coral reefs of the Red Sea and the Indo-Pacific . It was named after the influential British anthropologist and zoologist Alfred C. Haddon .
distribution
In the Indian Ocean , it lives in the coral reefs from the coasts of East Africa and northern Madagascar to the Andaman Sea , the coast of Indonesia and north-western Australia , but not in the north of the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf . In the Pacific , it inhabits the tropical, western part of the islands of Indonesia, via the Philippines , Taiwan to southern Japan , as well as the waters around New Guinea , the Solomon Islands , Vanuatus , the Fiji Islands and the north coast of Australia with the exception of the Gulf of Carpentaria .
features
Carpet anemones are pale white, gray, green, or yellow in color. Your folded mouth disk reaches a diameter of 50 to 80 centimeters. Around the mouth zone is a tentacle-free zone with a diameter of one to two centimeters. They live on sandy bottoms in shallow water and dig their feet deep. Carpet anemones retreat completely into the sand when in danger. The tentacles of the carpet anemone are extremely strong.
Carpet anemones live in symbiosis with zooxanthellae , from which they get some of the nutrients they need.
Carpet anemones are symbiotic anemones and important symbiotic partners of the anemonefish . They accept a total of six species from the Amphiprion clarkii complex and the subgenus Paramphiprion as partners.
In the saltwater aquarium , the carpet anemone is the most durable species after the bubble anemone ( Entacmaea quadricolor ). However, it poses a danger to fish, shrimp and other roommates who, once in contact with the tentacles, are often unable to free themselves. Marine aquarists also call them Pattex anemone because their tentacles stick to the hand and tear off when you pull them back.
literature
- Dapne G. Fautin, Gerald R. Allen : Anemonefish and their hosts , Tetra-Verlag (1994), ISBN 3-89356-171-4