Macrodactyla doreensis

Korkenzieheranemone with a young Clark's anemone fish in an aquarium of the Botanical Garden Liberec.

The Korkenzieheranemone ( Macrodactyla doreensis ) is a large sea anemone from the tropical coral reefs of the Indopazifiks.

Dissemination

In the Indian Ocean, she lives by the Mascarene over the Chagos Archipelago to the coast of Sumatra and Java. Further, their range extends in the Pacific with the exception of the coasts of the Lesser Sunda Islands, all over Indonesia to New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and the Great Barrier Reef on the northeast coast of Australia. To the north it is about the Philippines, Taiwan prior to the southern Ryukyu Islands. Compared to other symbiotic anemone has a relatively small area of ​​distribution.

Features

The oral disc of the corkscrew anemone is usually gray to brown, often with a purplish or greenish tinge. White radial stripes extending from the mouth opening to the edge. The most sediment into the buried body is brownish above, pale below orange to bright red. The mouth plate reached a diameter of up to 50 centimeters. The tentacles are not as numerous as in other symbiotic anemones. They are up to 17.5 cm long, tapering towards the tip and have a slightly corkscrew-like curvature.

Way of life

The Korkenzieheranemone lives on sandy soils between rocky and coral reefs. With danger she withdraws into the substrate. She lives with zooxanthellae in symbiosis from which it receives a portion of their required nutrients. The Korkenzieheranemone is a Smbioseanemonen and important symbiotic partners of the anemone fish. A total of three species of anemone fish, the Mauritius anemonefish ( Amphiprion chrysogaster ), Clark's anemonefish ( A. clarkii ) and the neck band Anemonefish (A. perideraion ) accept them as partners.