Into the dark: Two new encrusting anemones found in coral reef caves
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 10:30
in Biology & Nature
Three marine biologists from Japan have discovered two new and unusually unique species of encrusting anemone. Unlike almost all known species within their genus, these two new species do not have light-harvesting symbiotic zooxanthellae, having lost them as they adapted to life in cracks and caves in shallow coral reefs.