Urticina felina

Geographic Range

Alaska-California

Habitat

low intertidal-shallow sublittoral rocky coast

Physical Description

Reproduction

dioecious and oviparous.

  • Parental Investment
  • no parental involvement

Behavior

These anemones are solitary, lack a medusa stage, and are sessile.

Food Habits

This species is carnivorous, using nematocysts to paralize prey. They feed on relatively large organisms.

Other Comments

Neptunea pribiloffenses, a snail, lay eggs by Tealia crassicornis because the anemones eat sea urchins that prey on the snails' eggs

Contributors

Maija K. Schommer (author), University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

Glossary

Pacific Ocean

body of water between the southern ocean (above 60 degrees south latitude), Australia, Asia, and the western hemisphere. This is the world's largest ocean, covering about 28% of the world's surface.

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coastal

the nearshore aquatic habitats near a coast, or shoreline.

ectothermic

animals which must use heat acquired from the environment and behavioral adaptations to regulate body temperature

native range

the area in which the animal is naturally found, the region in which it is endemic.

radial symmetry

a form of body symmetry in which the parts of an animal are arranged concentrically around a central oral/aboral axis and more than one imaginary plane through this axis results in halves that are mirror-images of each other. Examples are cnidarians (Phylum Cnidaria, jellyfish, anemones, and corals).

References

Cairns, Stephen D. 1991. Cnidaria and Ctenophora. American Fisheries Society, Maryland.

Shick, Malcolm J. 1991. A Functional Biology of Sea Anemones. Chapman & Hall, London.

Hickman, Roberts. 1995. Animal Diversity. Wm. C. Brown Publishers, Dubuque, IA.