Sea Anemones By Yasmine Marshall Lynn Pierre Louis
Sea Anemones By: Yasmine Marshall & Lynn Pierre. Louis
Table Of Contents • • What are Sea Anemones? Habitat Characteristics What they eat How they reproduce Fun facts
What is a Sea Anemone? • Sea Anemones are stinging polyps • They are beautiful carnivorous plant like organisms that are considered to be the flowers of the sea.
Habitat • Sea Anemones live in warm coastal tropical waters • They are benthic organisms • They usually attach themselves to rocks and underwater structures , although some species burrow into mud or sand.
Tropical Waters Tropical waters are home to more than hundreds of different types of organisms and creatures. Tropical waters or oceans include the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and most of the Indian Ocean. Tropical are important in that they play a critical role in regulating the earth’s climate and large scale weather patterns, most of the planet’s biological diversity resides in the tropics and the global distribution of species. Ecosystems and organisms as well depend on oceanographic and atmospheric processes that develop in these oceans.
Characteristics • • • They come in many different shapes They all come in different sizes They have wavy tentacles They have bright colors They are homes for many different fish (clownfish , anemone fish)
What they eat • • • Small fish Shrimp Isopods Amphipods Plankton
How they eat • Filter Feeding where small organic particles , dead and alive are captured through the tentacles • Raptorial capture , where zooplankter's and motile benthic prey are caught by the tentacles • Passive capture , where sessile prey are discarded by foraging predators or wave action and carried into the tentacle.
How they reproduce • In sexual reproduction, unlike most cnidarians, anemones lack the free-swimming medusa stage. • The polyp produces the eggs or the sperm, depending on which sex it is, which both are ejected through the mouth. • The male usually releases the sperm first, which stimulates the female to release its eggs. • After fertilization, the egg will develop into a planula which will find a place to settle. • When it is settled, the planula will grow directly into a new polyp, meaning a new anemone.
Fun facts • Sea Anemones are carnivores. • Some species of sea anemones can live up to 50 years long or more. • Sea Anemones are named after the Anemone Flower, which is why it's known as the Flower of the Sea.
Bibliography • http: //www. asnailsodyssey. com/LEARNABOUT/ANEMONE/anem. Fo od. php • http: //animals. nationalgeographic. com/animals/invertebrates/seaanemone/ • http: //www. calstatela. edu/faculty/eviau/edit 557/oceans/norma/o sanom. htm • http: //www. marineparks. wa. gov. au/fun-facts/101 -seaanemones. html • http: //www. waterencyclopedia. com/Oc-Po/Oceans. Tropical. html#b
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