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jackiehildering  > Underwater > Cnidarians - stinging celled animals
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P9093165 - - Plumose anemone releasing "acontia". These are defensive strands filled with stinging cells that are ejected when the anemone is threatened or stressed. These threads extend far beyond the anemone and provide longer distance defense than the stinging cells (nematocysts) in the tentacles.
P9093181 - Dive buddy Natasha Dickinson with lion's mane jelly (small one). See video on the lion's mane jelly here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDmC6POxwEA&feature=youtu.be
P9093186 - Dive buddy Natasha Dickinson with lion's mane jelly (small one). See video on the lion's mane jelly here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDmC6POxwEA&feature=youtu.be
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© 2012 Jackie Hildering-203558 - Proliferating anemone
© 2012 Jackie Hildering-203565 - Hermit crab in a checkered hairysnail shell amongst brooding anemones. The baby brooding anemones exit out of the mother and cluster under her tentacles till they get pushed off by the next generation of siblings (to 8 cm).
© 2012 Jackie Hildering-203561 - Hermit crab in a checkered hairysnail shell amongst brooding anemones. The baby proliferating anemones exit out of the mother and cluster under her tentacles till they get pushed off by the next generation of siblings (to 8 cm).
P3106210 - Crimson anemones amid red soft coral.
P4226914 - Believe this is a fish-eating telia with its stomach protruding.
P9093165 - - Plumose anemone releasing "acontia". These are defensive strands filled with stinging cells that are ejected when the anemone is threatened or stressed. These threads extend far beyond the anemone and provide longer distance defense than the stinging cells (nematocysts) in the tentacles.
P9093165 - - Plumose anemone releasing "acontia". These are defensive strands filled with stinging cells that are ejected when the anemone is threatened or stressed. These threads extend far beyond the anemone and provide longer distance defense than the stinging cells (nematocysts) in the tentacles.
P9093165 - - Plumose anemone releasing "acontia". These are defensive strands filled with stinging cells that are ejected when the anemone is threatened or stressed. These threads extend far beyond the anemone and provide longer distance defense than the stinging cells (nematocysts) in the tentacles.
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Keywords: canada british columbia echinoderm plumose anemones northern vancouver island acontia
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