> [!summary]- Classification **Kingdom**:: [Animalia](Animalia.md) **Phylum**:: [Cnidaria](Cnidaria.md) **Subphylum**:: **Superclass**:: **Class**:: [Anthozoa](Anthozoa.md) **Subclass**:: Ceriantharia **Superorder**:: **Order**:: **Suborder**:: **Superfamily**:: **Family**:: **Subfamily**:: **Genus**:: Cerianthus **Species**:: C. membranaceus **Vernacular**:: Cylinder anemone ## Photos ![https://res.cloudinary.com/dt3d6t2ay/image/upload/v1693086034/obsidian/2023-05-13%20Epidaure%20APSAP/Echinodermata/Ceriantharia/P5190470_xd4bl6.jpg](https://res.cloudinary.com/dt3d6t2ay/image/upload/v1693086034/obsidian/2023-05-13%20Epidaure%20APSAP/Echinodermata/Ceriantharia/P5190470_xd4bl6.jpg)*[131 - 2023-05-19 - Pirate des Caraïbes - Epidaurus - Greece](131%20-%202023-05-19%20-%20Pirate%20des%20Caraïbes%20-%20Epidaurus%20-%20Greece.md) - We can see the main feature of ceriantharia, wich is the double crown of tentacles: one in with shorter tentacles, and one on the outside circle, with longer tentacles.* ![https://res.cloudinary.com/dt3d6t2ay/image/upload/v1693086034/obsidian/2023-05-13%20Epidaure%20APSAP/Echinodermata/Ceriantharia/P5170238_sznjec.jpg](https://res.cloudinary.com/dt3d6t2ay/image/upload/v1693086034/obsidian/2023-05-13%20Epidaure%20APSAP/Echinodermata/Ceriantharia/P5170238_sznjec.jpg) *[127 - 2023-05-17 - Labyrinthe de Zeus - Epidaurus - Greece](127%20-%202023-05-17%20-%20Labyrinthe%20de%20Zeus%20-%20Epidaurus%20-%20Greece.md) - Ceriantharia exists in a lot of different colors. Different colors doesn't always mean different species. With my biology teacher in the background.* ![https://res.cloudinary.com/dt3d6t2ay/image/upload/v1693086036/obsidian/2023-05-13%20Epidaure%20APSAP/Echinodermata/Ceriantharia/P5170242_svhzm6.jpg](https://res.cloudinary.com/dt3d6t2ay/image/upload/v1693086036/obsidian/2023-05-13%20Epidaure%20APSAP/Echinodermata/Ceriantharia/P5170242_svhzm6.jpg) *[127 - 2023-05-17 - Labyrinthe de Zeus - Epidaurus - Greece](127%20-%202023-05-17%20-%20Labyrinthe%20de%20Zeus%20-%20Epidaurus%20-%20Greece.md) - My teacher was showing us a very rare association with [[Phoronis australis - Cerianthid phoronid worm]] [Phoronis australis](), which a very specific phylum. This is the little cloudy white under his finger. It looks like a little flower. My teacher asked me to take a macro picture of it, so I lay in the sand to get closer. Then, I feel something moving under me. I moved slightly, then I saw the head of a really ugly fish. I jumped! It was a rare sand fish, an [[Uranoscopus scaber - Stargazer]]* ## Notes ## References - https://doris.ffessm.fr/Especes/Cerianthus-membranaceus-Grand-cerianthe-16/(rOffset)/2 - [Découvrir la vie sous-marine - Méditerranée - Steven Weinberg](Découvrir%20la%20vie%20sous-marine%20-%20Méditerranée%20-%20Steven%20Weinberg.md) p165