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C. adhaesium showing the distinctive edge tentacles | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Cnidaria |
Class: | Hexacorallia |
Order: | Actiniaria |
Family: | Thalassianthidae |
Genus: | Cryptodendrum Klunzinger, 1877 |
Species: | C. adhaesivum
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Binomial name | |
Cryptodendrum adhaesivum (Klunzinger, 1877)
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Cryptodendrum is a genus of sea anemones in the family Thalassianthidae. It is monotypic with a single species, Cryptodendrum adhaesivum, also commonly known as the adhesive anemone, pizza anemone, and nap-edged anemone. Like all symbiotic anemones it hosts zooxanthellae, symbiotic algae that help feed their host.[1]