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[edit] Question

What is this?
What is this?

Can anyone tell me what species of anemone this is? – Quadell (talk) (help)[[]] 20:49, Nov 27, 2004 (UTC)

I think it looks like a giant green sea anemone Anthopleura xanthogrammica. Esoxidt 17:34, 13 February 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Contradictory section

The "Conservation" section of the article says:

Anemones reproduce extremely slowly, and it is common for collected specimens to be well over 100 years old.

And then, later:

Due to the short lifespan and specialized needs of anemones, they do not live long in captivity.

Anyone able to reconcile this? -- 12.74.206.13 08:29, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm guessing that they have a short lifespan in captivity from how that's done. -Aaedien (talk) 01:50, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Burning Question

How do sea anemone excrerte waste products? Do they have an annus? Answer very soon please! They exert threw the mouth.

Anemone excrerate waste fron the same place they eat it from

[edit] Sea anemone anatomy

Any chance of a diagram showing the anatomy?

I ask because I've just set up a cold water marine aquarium with rocks from a rock pool and have included 3 or 4 small anemones that I can't identify. About 7 mm diameter, body only 1 or 2 mm long, crusted with sand, about 18 tentacles, pale green. They live on a rock near the sand level and seem happy to be buried occasionally when other animals move sand around. Location: east coast of Scotland (Kingsbarns, Fife).

If I knew the anatomy I could give a more accurate description!

Norman Paterson - nrp@dog-days.co.uk 81.179.240.244 21:22, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Chinese wikipedia has this image. Now if I only knew chinese... http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sea_anemone.gif Cygnus78 00:00, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
There is an image here I think it pretty much represent a typical Actiniaria. Lejean2000 16:02, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sea anemone illustration

Just wanted to point out this image I uploaded, which a maintainer may want to add to this article: Image:Haeckel Actiniae.jpg. --ragesoss 16:09, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

I oppose putting this image on the page. First of all, it is not a photo and second, we already have too many pictures. It may be a good idea to build a gallery. Lejean2000 16:25, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] References

There is not a single reference in the article. Someone should fix this. Whatever dude...ur over exsaderating...ha ha ha ha ha ha....Lejean2000 16:25, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Social actions and wars

I think it would be worth adding a section on the way some anemones form into patches and "fight" with each other, it's an interesting behavior. There is a link detailing it but nothing on the page itself. Rainman420 10:15, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Also, there is a picture whose caption indicates two anemones are in "clone war" but there is no description of what "clone war" is, or maybe its vandalism, but I dont know enough. 74.224.148.55 21:43, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] cnidae capable of everting?

I think this sentence has been vandalized at some time, anyone knows what it's supposed to say where it says "everting"?
"..Cnydocytes contain cnidae, capsule-like organelles capable of everting, giving phylum Cnidaria its name.."

Just thought that maybe it's supposed to say "reverting", since I remember anemones sort of grasping a stick if you poked them with it. If so, isn't there maybe a better word? antabus 17:01, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Bah.. Just found out that everting is an actual word all by itself, and not just missing an 'r', sorry if anyone wasted time on my behalf antabus 10:41, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] utilisation of sea amnemones

I ran into this citation from Athenaeus today; "Considera scadenti tutti i piccoli pesci da friggere, tranne quelli ateniesi; intendo riferirmi ai gonos, che gli Ionici chiamano bavosa; e accettali solo se pescati da poco nel mare della baia di Falero (...). Se tu desideri gustarli appieno devi, al contempo al mercato, acquistare delle urticanti anemoni di mare con tentacoli a foglia. Poi uniscili al pesce e rosola tutto in padella, dopo aver preparato una crema di verdure scelte per ricoprire il tutto". (285; b, c; op. cit.). (from http://www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/c/carubia/autori_classici_greci_in_sicilia/html/testi/archestr.htm)

is there any exempls known of their utilisation as food or as anything else ? this article lacks in the relation of Human beings and the sea anemones. (perhaps theres no relation worth mentionning?)

[edit] help

can n e 1 tell me why my enemone keeps turning itself upside down pls many thanx

I don't know. Wikipedia is not a chat room, and we do not use 'n e 1' for anyone. It is spelled anemone, not enemone, and thanks doen't end in x. Please sign your posts with ~~~~. I would suggest asking this at the Wikipedia:Reference Desk. Reywas92Talk 19:29, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Reywas92, don't be a dick. It's almost like a rule. Don't be a dick. And don't bite the newcomers. You don't speak for all Wikipedians, necessarily. Also, doesn't has an s in it. Please sign YOUR posts with "I apologize if I have offended with my pedantic tendencies." 64.180.216.131 18:22, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

No, don't be a dick. 81.178.80.171 (talk) 09:59, 24 December 2007 (UTC) Bristolian Tony.

[edit] This should reference bubble tips

I think that the conservation/reproduction/harvesting comments should mention that there is an alternative for artificial reef tanks, namely bubble tip anemones, that reproduce in captivity over a shorter period of time.