Image of sea onion
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Description:
This is the onion anemone, Paranthus rapiformis. It is a sand-dwelling anemone. If you dig it up and it contracts, it looks exactly like a white onion. The expanded visible parts, the tentacles and oral disc, can be beige, greenish, or pinkish. New to the database.
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- Life
- Cellular
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (animals)
- Cnidaria (cnidarians)
- Anthozoa (anemones and corals)
- Hexacorallia
- Actiniaria (sea anemones)
- Enthemonae
- Actinostoloidea
- Actinostolidae
- Paranthus
- Paranthus rapiformis (sea onion)
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