Species Gallery (Anthozoa)
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Actinauge richardi specimen showing column.
Copyright: Dr Hilmar Hinz
Actinauge richardi, tentacles retracted.
Copyright: Dr Hilmar Hinz
Close up of tentacles of Actinauge richardi.
Copyright: Dr Hilmar Hinz
Brilliant red Actinia equina.
Copyright: Peter Barfield
Actinia equina
Copyright: Sue Daly
Actinia equina showing blue acrorhagi.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Actinia fragacea with tentacles outstretched.
Copyright: Sue Scott
A closed Actinia equina individual at low tide.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
A macro image of an anemone on rocky substratum
Copyright: Sue Daly
An Actinia equina attached to the substratum.
Copyright: MarLIN
Brown morph of Actinia equina.
Copyright: Peter Barfield
Closed Actinia equina individuals on an overhang.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Five closed Actinia equina individuals at low tide.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
The beadlet anemone Actinia equina with characteristic blue acrorhagi.
Copyright: Peter Barfield
Wall of Actinia equina in the Gouliot Caves, Sark, Channel Isles.
Copyright: Sue Daly
Actinia fragacea hanging off rock at Divers Beach, Lundy.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Actinia fragacea in rock pool.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Actinia fragacea taken in Wales.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
A closed Actinia fragacea specimen.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Close-up image of expanded strawberry anemone, Actinia fragacea.
Copyright: Dave Peake
Contracted Actinia fragacea above water.
Copyright: Holly Latham
Entire Actinia fragacea with tentacles retracted.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Withdrawn Actinia fragacea individual, Wales.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Actinothoe sphyrodeta showing the 'fried egg' colour morph on the wreck of the Mohegan at the Manacles, Cornwall.
Copyright: Robert Keen
Actinothoe sphyrodeta Penryn Reef, Manacles, southwest Cornwall.
Copyright: Robert Keen
Actinothoe sphyrodeta showing striped column, at Doune, Scotland.
Copyright: Fiona Crouch
A partially-retracted white sandalled anemone, showing column and tentacles.
Copyright: John Hepburn
A white sandalled anemone, showing column and tentacles.
Copyright: John Hepburn
White Actinothoe sphyrodeta at Firestone Bay in Plymouth Sound.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
White Actinothoe sphyrodeta at Firestone Bay, Plymouth Sound.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Aquarium photograph of Adamsia palliata on Pagurus prideaux.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Adamsia palliata on a hermit crab at Porthkerris Reef, south Cornwall.
Copyright: Fiona Crouch
Adamsia palliata on a hermit crab at the Breakwater Fort in the Plymouth Sound.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Adamsia palliata on hermit crab.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
A colony of Aiptasia couchii.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Aiptasia couchii at Knoll Pins, Lundy Island.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Entire individual with other smaller anemones around.
Copyright: Sue Daly
Lone, olive green Aiptasia couchii.
Copyright: Paul Newland
Dense bed of Alcyonium digitatum.
Copyright: Sue Scott
Alcyonium digitatum
Copyright: Gordon Lang
Alcyonium digitatum - close-up of polyps.
Copyright: Sue Scott
Alcyonium digitatum under an overhang at low tide - close up view.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Alcyonium digitatum under an overhang at low tide.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
A group of Alcyonium digitatum colonies in the Firth of Lorn.
Copyright: Gordon Lang
Colonies of brown Alcyonium digitatum with polyps withdrawn.
Copyright: Sue Scott
The polyps of dead man's fingers Alcyonium digitatum.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
White dead man's fingers, Mew Stone, Plymouth Sound.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Alcyonium glomeratum on the Manacles, southwest Cornwall.
Copyright: Robert Keen
Alcyonium glomeratum against a black background.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Alcyonium glomeratum showing open and closed polyps in the Channel Isles.
Copyright: Sue Daly
Close up of Alcyonium glomeratum expanded polyps at Hand Deeps, Plymouth.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Close up of Alcyonium glomeratum polyps in the Channel Isles.
Copyright: Sue Daly
Close up of Alcyonium glomeratum polyps, at Hand Deeps, Plymouth.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Red sea fingers.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Small colony of Alcyonium hibernicum on cave wall.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Alcyonium hibernicum with a diameter of 6 cm, at Knoll Pins on Lundy Island.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Sea fan anemone on Eunicella verrucosa.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Amphianthus dohrnii polyps on branches of sea fan.
Copyright: Chris Wood
Amphianthus dohrnii in the Scilly Isles.
Copyright: Robert Keen
Group of sea fan anemones on Eunicella verrucosa.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Anemonia viridis.
Copyright: Peter Barfield
Anemone viridis amongst Dilsea carnosa at Porthkerris, Cornwall.
Copyright: Fiona Crouch
Anemonia viridis
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Anemonia viridis attached to eelgrass.
Copyright: Jack Sewell
Green and pink-tipped Anemonia viridis at low tide.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Group of Anemonia viridis at Firestone Bay in Plymouth Sound.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Snakelocks anemone in rockpool.
Copyright: Dr Charlotte Marshall
Tentacles of Anemonia viridis.
Copyright: Sue Scott
A variety of Anthopleura ballii with a green disc and tentacles, showing speckled column.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Anthopleura ballii on a sublittoral seabed.
Copyright: Fiona Crouch
Anthopleura ballii on sediment covered rock.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Anthopleura ballii spawning
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Anthopleura ballii.
Copyright: Mark Thomas
Anthopleura thallia in a shallow rockpool.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Dense Anthopleura thallia in a sandy rockpool.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Arachnanthus sarsi with tentacles outstretched.
Copyright: Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
The gem anemone, Aulactinia verrucosa, in south west Guernsey.
Copyright: Richard Lord
A gem anemone.
Copyright: Tabitha Pearman
Adult Aulactinia verrucosa with juvenile.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Closed and open gem anemones.
Copyright: Richard Lord
The gem anemone, Aulactinia verrucosa, of the west coast of Guernsey.
Copyright: Richard Lord
Retracted Balanophyllia (Balanophyllia) regia.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Balanophyllia (Balanophyllia) regia, Ilfracombe.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Balanophyllia (Balanophyllia) regia, Plymouth.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Five Balanophyllia (Balanophyllia) regia on rock.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Scarlet and gold star coral at Thorn Rock, Skomer.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Individual photographed in Trondheim Fjord, Norway.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Bolocera tuediae on rocky substratum
Copyright: Fiona Crouch
Two anemones on Buccinum shell. Aquarium photograph.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
A parasitic anemone on the claw of the edible crab, Cancer pagurus.
Copyright: Matthew Jeanes
Two Calliactis parasitica anemones associated with a hermit crab on the sand in the Channel Isles.
Copyright: Sue Daly
Oral view of Capnea sanguinea amongst gravel.
Copyright: Sue Scott
Capnea sanguinea (red) amongst pebbles and brittlestars.
Copyright: Sue Scott
Capnea sanguinea on the sea floor.
Copyright: Fiona Crouch
Capnea sanguinea.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Close up of Caryophyllia inornata.
Copyright: Paul Newland
A few Caryophyllia inornata on rock surface.
Copyright: Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
Devonshire cup coral, Caryophyllia smithii at Strome Narrows, Loch Carron, Scotland.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Caryophyllia smithii
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Caryophyllia smithii in Doune, Scotland.
Copyright: Fiona Crouch
Caryophyllia smithii on the Manalces, south-west Cornwall.
Copyright: Robert Keen
Caryophyllia smithii on the wreck of the Rosehill, south Devon.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Devonshire cup coral, Caryophyllia smithii.
Copyright: Sue Scott
Lone Caryophyllia smithii on a rock.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Cataphellia brodricii.
Copyright: Marco Faasse
Two individuals of Cereus pedunculatus.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Cereus pedunculatus almost hidden amongst seaweed on a gravel bed.
Copyright: Fiona Crouch
Cereus pedunculatus on cobbles.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Cereus pedunculatus.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
A Cereus pedunculatus anemone surrounded by Corynactis viridis anemones.
Copyright: Paul Newland
A group of daisy anemones found near a Zostera noltei seagrass bed.
Copyright: John Hepburn
Daisy anemones in sediment
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Cerianthus lloydii on sandy substrata in Loch Fyne, Scotland.
Copyright: Prof. Jason Hall-Spencer
Cerianthus lloydii.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Cerianthus lloydii.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Cerianthus lloydii.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Arachnactis larva of Cerianthus lloydii from the plankton.
Copyright: Paul Tranter
Lone Cerianthus lloydii on a sandy seabed in Doune.
Copyright: Fiona Crouch
Close up of green and orange Corynactis viridis in the Channel Isles.
Copyright: Sue Daly
Corynactis viridis at Doune, Scotland.
Copyright: Fiona Crouch
Corynactis viridis on Penryn Reef, Manacles, southwest Cornwall.
Copyright: Robert Keen
Corynactis viridis on the hull of the wreck of the City of Westminster, Manacles, southwest Cornwall.
Copyright: Robert Keen
Corynactis viridis on the wreck of the Mohegan at the Manacles, southwest Cornwall.
Copyright: Robert Keen
Corynactis viridis.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Close up of Corynactis viridis at Firestone Bay in Plymouth Sound.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Close up view of Corynactis viridis at Firestone Bay in Plymouth Sound.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Cylista elegans var. miniata at the Scilly Isles.
Copyright: Fiona Crouch
Cylista elegans
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Cylista elegans var. nivea in Lyme Bay, Devon.
Copyright: Robert Keen
Cylista elegans var. nivia with encrusting an sponge on Hat Rock, Plymouth .
Copyright: Robert Keen
Cylista elegans var. rosea with Alcyonium digitatum in the Isles of Scilly.
Copyright: Fiona Crouch
Cylista elegans var. venusta on the wreck of the Scylla, Whitsand Bay, Cornwall.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Cylista elegans var. rosea on the wreck of the Scylla, Whitsand Bay, Cornwall.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Close up of Cylista elegans.
Copyright: Sue Scott
Orange-centred Cylista elegans with clear white spots on the column.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
A sea anemone Cylista lacerata.
Copyright: Paul Naylor
Aquarium photograph of individual from Firestone Bay, Plymouth Sound.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Cylista undata on sandy sublittoral sediment.
Copyright: Paul Newland
Two Cylista undata anemones adjacent to bivalve siphons.
Copyright: Paul Newland
Two Cylista undata anemones adjacent to bivalve siphons.
Copyright: Paul Newland
Diadumene cincta.
Copyright: Marco Faasse
An orange-striped anemone at Porthallow, showing striped orange scaphus.
Copyright: Matthew Jeanes
Edwardsiella carnea.
Copyright: Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA)
The zoanthid sea anemone Epizoanthus couchii.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Epizoanthus couchii at Firestone Bay in Plymouth Sound.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Cluster of Epizoanthus couchii at Firestone Bay in Plymouth Sound.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Two fans of Eunicella verrucosa showing the two morphs, pink and white.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Eunicella verrucosa on the wreck of the Persier, south Devon.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Eunicella verrucosa.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
A white sea fan amongst pink fans on the wreck of the Persier, Bigbury Bay.
Copyright: Paul Newland
Close up of Eunicella verrucosa with polyps extended at Hand Deeps, Plymouth.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Close up of the extended polyps of Eunicella verrucosa on Hand Deeps, Plymouth.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Mermaids purse (dogfish egg) wrapped around Eunicella verrucosa at the Dartmouth Mewstone in south Devon.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Necrotic example of Eunicella verrucosa at the Mewstone, Plymouth.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Necrotic Eunicella verrucosa.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Small sea fan at the Mewstone, Plymouth.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Funiculina quadrangularis, tall sea pen.
Copyright: Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
A number of Funiculina quadrangularis embedded in sediment
Copyright: Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
Diver and the tall sea pen Funiculina quadrangularis at ca 20 m depth in Loch Duich
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
The tall sea pen Funiculina quadrangularis at 20 m depth in Loch Duich.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Lone Halcampa chrysanthellum on the seabed.
Copyright: Lin Baldock
Taken on a night dive, Halcampoides abyssorum retracting back into the gravel on the south side of at Knoll Pins, Lundy.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Halcampoides purpureus at Knoll Pins, Lundy Island.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Colony Hoplangia durotrix on the Wreck of the Rosehill at 24 meters depth below chart datum.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Hoplangia durotrix with cup corals at Lundy.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Colonies of the Weymouth carpet coral Hoplangia durotrix in a gulley, Southampton.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Pair of Hormathia coronata individuals on a mixed substratum.
Copyright: Lin Baldock
Isozoanthus sulcatus colony in typical habitat of silty rock.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Leptopsammia pruvoti.
Copyright: Sue Scott
Leptopsammia pruvoti
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Leptopsammia pruvoti eggs / larvae at water surface in aquarium.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Leptopsammia pruvoti in the Channel Isles.
Copyright: Sue Daly
Group of sunset cup corals Leptopsammia pruvoti on vertical rock at depth 30 m, Plymouth Sound old cliff-line.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Oral view of Leptopsammia pruvoti.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Sunset cup coral Leptopsammia pruvoti group on vertical rock below overhang at the Knoll Pins, Lundy.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Sunset cup coral Leptopsammia pruvoti on vertical rock on submerged cliff-line offshore of Plymouth Sound.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Typical group of the solitary coral Leptopsammia pruvoti.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Lophelia pertusa photographed in 1971
Copyright: Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA)
Polyps of the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa.
Copyright: Dr Murray Roberts
Close up of the skeletal framework of a Lophelia pertusa colony.
Copyright: Dan Lear
Close up the skeletal cups (corallites) of Lophelia pertusa.
Copyright: Dan Lear
Colony of Lophelia pertusa from Mingulay Reef complex.
Copyright: Dr Murray Roberts
Skeleton of a small colony of Lophelia pertusa.
Copyright: Dan Lear
Mesacmaea mitchelli in muddy gravel.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Mesacmaea mitchelli in muddy sand at ca 8 m below chart datum
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Close up of Metridium senile on Raglan Reef, Manacles, south-west Cornwall.
Copyright: Robert Keen
Metridium senile in Scapa Flow, Orkneys.
Copyright: Robert Keen
Metridium senile seemingly 'on the move', HMS Scylla.
Copyright: Paul Newland
Metridium senile showing catch tentacles
Copyright: Dylan Jones
Metridium senile with tentacles retracted, surrounded by brittlestars
Copyright: Julian Madle
Metridium senile.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Metridium senile.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
A plumose anemone colony.
Copyright: Paul Newland
Pink and white Metridium senile.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Plumose anemone on a cable.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
White and orange Metridium senile
Copyright: Gordon Lang
Nematostella vectensis, one individual removed from the substratum.
Copyright: Dennis R. Seaward
Individual with out-stretched tentacles.
Copyright: Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
Pachycerianthus multiplicatuson rocky substratum
Copyright: Sue Daly
A fireworks anemone Pachycerianthus multiplicatus from Loch Duich Head with tentacles outstretched.
Copyright: Sue Scott
Centre of Pachycerianthus multiplicatus against a black background.
Copyright: Fiona Crouch
Retracted Pachycerianthus multiplicatus against a black background.
Copyright: Fiona Crouch
The fireworks anemone Pachycerianthus multiplicatus with tentacles outstretched.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Parazoanthus anguicomus on dead Eunicella verrucosa at Coopers Cliff off shore Plymouth Sound.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Parazoanthus anguicomus.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Close up of Parazoanthus anguicomus at Doune, Scotland.
Copyright: Fiona Crouch
Close up of Parazoanthus anguicomus on the Manacles, southwest Cornwall.
Copyright: Robert Keen
Clump of Parazoanthus anguicomus.
Copyright: Paul Naylor
White creeping anemone Parazoanthus anguicomus on rock.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Cluster of Parazoanthus axinellae polyps.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Parazoanthus axinellae
Copyright: Paul Newland
Parazoanthus axinellae on Coopers Cliff off shore Plymouth Sound.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Parazoanthus axinellae on rock face at Lundy Island.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Close up of Parazoanthus axinellae polyps in the Channel Isles.
Copyright: Sue Daly
Peachia cylindrica anemone and maerl.
Copyright: Sue Scott
Peachia cylindrica
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Peachia cylindrica buried in coarse sand.
Copyright: Paul Newland
Peachia cylindrica larvae.
Copyright: Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA)
Peachia cylindrica on a gravel bed.
Copyright: Fiona Crouch
Pennatula phosphorea and Turritella communis in muddy sediment.
Copyright: Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
Close-up view of Pennatula phosphorea.
Copyright: Dr Hilmar Hinz
Group of individuals.
Copyright: Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
Protanthea simplex.
Copyright: Sue Scott
Protanthea simplex at Stome Narrows in Loch Carron, Scotland.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Protanthea simplex at Stome Narrows in Loch Carron, Scotland.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Protanthea simplex surrounded by brittle stars.
Copyright: Fiona Crouch
A collection of anemones amongst Sabella pavonina.
Copyright: Gordon Lang
A sea loch anemone.
Copyright: Gordon Lang
The sealoch anemone Protanthea simplex.
Copyright: Marine Conservation Society (MCS)
The worm anemone Scolanthus callimorphus.
Copyright: Marco Faasse
A group of sea fans.
Copyright: Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
Swiftia pallida surrounded by coral polyps.
Copyright: Fiona Crouch
A northern sea fan.
Copyright: Gordon Lang
Urticina felina at Scapa Flow, Orkneys.
Copyright: Robert Keen
Urticina felina
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Urticina felina
Copyright: Cathal McNaughton
Urticina felina
Copyright: Cathal McNaughton
Urticina felina
Copyright: Julian Madle
Urticina felina (showing colour variation between the two)
Copyright: Julian Madle
Urticina felina column showing verrucae.
Copyright: Sue Scott
Urticina felina.
Copyright: Sue Scott
Urticina felina.
Copyright: Sue Scott
Urticina felina.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
A blue colour morph of Urticina felina.
Copyright: Paul Newland
Closed Urticina felina.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Group of Urticina felina.
Copyright: Paul Naylor
The dahlia anemone Urticina felina fully retracted. Column showing characteristic warts (verrucae) and adherent debris.
Copyright: Paul Newland
Sea pens, Virgularia mirabilis extending from muddy sediment.
Copyright: Sue Scott
Virgularia mirabilis embedded in sediment.
Copyright: Sue Scott
Virgularia mirabilis embedded in sediment; 5 colonies shown.
Copyright: Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
Stem and polyps of Virgularia mirabilis.
Copyright: Sue Scott
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