Merten’s Sea Anemone (Stychodactyla mertensii)
Image Copyright Jonathan Milnes
Observed: Koh Chang Reefs, December 2015
Observed By: Jonathan Milnes
Merten’s Sea Anemone is the largest of all the sea anemones – another Koh Chang species that’s the biggest of its kind. It has a diameter of over 1 metre and attaches itself to the sea bed with special wart-like protuberances called verrucae.
Like most anemone species it has symbiotic relationships with anemonefish – which protect the anemones from predation in return for the protective environment of the anemone’s stinging tentacles. This species hosts plays host to around half of all the different species of anemone fish.
Merten’s sea Anemone Wikipedia
Other Koh Chang Corals and Anemones
