Subject: Aggregating Sea Anemone, Anthopleura elegantissima on the Oregon coast

Location: Seal Rock tidal pools, Lincoln County, Oregon

Stock Number: 101_0232

Comments: This very common species of small sea anemone is able to reproduce by cloning. In the field one may notice sharply defined gaps between groups of anemones; often these indicate where one set of clones ends and another begins. One group of clones will sting other sea anemones until those competing anemones draw back.