Scientific name:

Anemonia viridis

About:

Sea anemones live attached to the rocks, catching plankton and tiny animals from the water with their stinging tentacles. This species is adapted to live in the water and does not retract its tentacles when disturbed or out of water.

How to identify:

<p>The snakelocks anemone is a distinctive species which is usually green in colour with purple-tipped tentacles. Sometimes this species is uniformly grey-brown in colour.<br></p><p><br></p>

Where:

Common on the lower part of rocky shores and in rockpools down to the shallow sublitteral.

Fantastic facts:

Anemones have stinging cells in their tentacles - used to stun small pray items.