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Marine Invertebrates
Nematostella vectensis Stephenson, 1935
Nomenclature
Species:
Nematostella vectensis Stephenson, 1935
Usage:
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Synonyms: 3
SUMMARY
Sea anemones are generally thought of as occurring on rocky sea beds but the Starlet Sea Anemone’s habitat is fine mud in brackish pools. This is not a common habitat and in Britain it is found only in Hampshire, Suffolk, Essex and at Cley on the Norfolk coast. When a pool in which it occurred there was threatened by coastal erosion, a translocation programme transferred it to pools on NWT Cley Marshes where several populations are now thriving. The extended ‘arms’ of the anemone measure less than 2cm across and at the slightest disturbance they, and the anemone’s tubular body, contract into the mud.
Text: Tony Leech