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Biology - Marine Biology

Bembridge Marine Life:
Anemonia viridis - The snakelocks anemone

This is the green form that has purple tips to its tentacles. There is also a grey-pink form.

Contained within the tentacles are photosynthetic algae known as Zooxanthellae.

Photo: RJH Herbert