Found under a rock, California in the intertidal. ID?
Posted by warsmanclaw@reddit | marinebiology | View on Reddit | 6 comments
Posted by warsmanclaw@reddit | marinebiology | View on Reddit | 6 comments
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Your post was removed as it violated rule #8: Responses to identification requests or questions must be an honest attempt at answering. This includes blatant misidentifications and overly-general/unhelpful identifications or answers.
tailstxt@reddit
those are sea anemones! they look funky when they arent under water. i believe the pink stuff around them is a type of coralline algae!
yellow-bold@reddit
i'm not up to date on my corallines, but it looks like a mix of lithothamnion and phymatolithon.
PacificKestrel@reddit
Brooding anemones.
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