A tube anemone (Cerianthid). Cerianthid anemones construct a tube of mucous,mud, and fired nematocysts(small hair-like structures produced withinspecialized cells) that may extend a meter deep into the sediment.
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Date: 2005 September 1.
Credit: North Atlantic Stepping Stones Science Party, IFE, URI-IAO; NOAA/OAR/OER