Common name : Red beadlet anemone,Cherry anemone, Kotore anemone
Scientific name : Actinia tenebrosa
Family : Actiniidae
Native to : Eastern Australia and New Zealand
Interesting fact : The anemone is viviparous, brooding its young ones inside the column, releasing them through the mouth whenthey are fully developed.
Conservation status : Not Evaluated
This small, brown-red anemone lives in intertidal rocky shores.It is a large polyp with feeding tentacles held up on a cylindrical body or ‘column’. The basal disc keeps it fixed to a substrate and helps it move. The tentacles have hundreds of stinging cells called nematocysts to catch prey like plankton and small fish. Its lifespan is 80 years.
