California Academy of Sciences, Water Planet Gallery
The heart of the Steinhart Aquarium, Water Planet focuses on the universality of water wherever there is life, investigating the adaptations by organisms to live in the myriad niches resulting from water's many differences in chemistry, abundance or scarcity, temperature, and motion.
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Metridium farcimen
Metridium farcimen is a species of sea anemone in the family Metridiidae. It is commonly known as the giant plumose anemone or white-plumed anemone. It is found on the western seaboard of the United States and Canada and in deep water sites especially where the water is slow moving.
Strawberry Anemone
Corynactis californica is a bright red colonial anthozoan similar to sea anemones and scleractinian stony corals. Unlike the Atlantic true sea anemone, Actinia fragacea, that bears the same common name, strawberry anemone, this species is a colonial animal of the order Corallimorpharia. Other common names include club-tipped anemone and strawberry ...more ↓
Zoanthus
Zoanthus is a genus of soft coral, anthozoans in the order Zoanthidae. It is the name genus for its family and order.
Fungia
Fungia is a genus of mushroom, disc or plate corals in the family Fungiidae. Members of the genus are found growing on reefs in the Indo-Pacific.
Trachyphyllia geoffroyi
The open brain corals, Trachyphyllia geoffroyi, are just one of thousands of classifications of coral. They are named as such due to their resemblance to an inverted animal brain as seen by the human eye. As the name also suggests, the open brain corals are related to the many other species of brain corals found in shallow warm-water coral reefs in all the world's oceans. The ...more ↓
Bubble-tip Anemone
Entacmaea quadricolor, commonly called Bubble-tip anemone among other various vernaculair name, is a species of sea anemone in the family Actiniidae.
Duncanopsammia axifuga
Duncanopsammia axifuga, also commonly called whisker coral, duncanops coral, or simply duncan coral, is a type of LPS (Large Polyp Stony) coral. It is similar in appearance to the Elegance coral.
Lobo Corals
Lobophyllia, commonly called lobo coral, is a genus of large polyp stony corals. Members of this genus are sometimes found in reef aquariums. It includes the following species:
Montipora
Montipora is a genus of small polyp stony coral in the phylum Cnidaria. Depending on the species and location, Montipora may grow as plates or ridges, appearing to some as a bowl or flower. Undisturbed, the plates expand radially and may encrust over surrounding rocks, shells or debris. These corals are extremely common on reefs in the Red Sea, the western Indian Ocean ...more ↓
Montipora digitata
Finger coral, Montipora digitata, is a species of stony coral. It is found in East Africa, the Indo-West Pacific, Kenya, Mozambique and Rodriguez.
Sarcophyton
In the Plant Kingdom (Plantae), Sarcophyton is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae: Sarcophyton (plant) In the Animal Kingdom (Animalia), Sarcophyton is a genus of soft coral in the family Alcyoniidae: ?? <!-- NewPP limit report Parsed by mw1220 CPU time usage: 0.056 seconds Real time usage: 0.071 seconds Preprocessor ...more ↓
Xeniidae
The Xeniidae are a family of soft coral in the order Alcyonacea. Predatory sea slugs of the genus Phyllodesmium are reported to feed on Xeniidae species. The family contains the following genera:
Metridium
Members of the genus Metridium, also known as plumose anemones, are sea anemones found mostly in the cooler waters of the northern Pacific and Atlantic oceans. They are characterized by their numerous threadlike tentacles extending from atop a smooth cylindrical column, and can vary from a few centimeters in height up to one meter or more. In larger specimens, the oral ...more ↓
Gorgonia
Gorgonacea is an order of sessile colonial cnidarian found throughout the oceans of the world, especially in the tropics and subtropics. Gorgonians are also known as sea whips or sea fans and are similar to the sea pen, a soft coral. Gorgonians are closely related to, but technically not coral, themselves. Individual tiny polyps form colonies that are normally erect, ...more ↓
