Giant Caribbean sea anemone
The giant Caribbean sea anemone is a large, colourful sea animal that looks like a soft, flower-shaped blob on the seabed. It lives in shallow reefs and calm inshore waters in the Caribbean and western Atlantic. Its sting is strong enough to stun the fish and shrimp it eats.1

Tsela ya go e lemoga
- Grows about 15 cm high and 30 cm wide, with a disc up to about 40 cm across1
- Body can be white, light blue, pink, orange, pale red or light brown1
- More than 100 tentacles surround the mouth1
- Tentacle tips may be purple or rose-coloured, or may be paler than the body1
- Grows singly or in loose groups, never as colonies1
Maatla a botlhole
Dikete tsa disele tse dinnye tse di tlhabang di a thuntsha fa sengwe se di ama.
Botlhole jo e bo tsenyang bo dira eng?
Its stinging cells (nematocysts) at the tentacle tips contain a toxin called CgNa. When the stinging cells fire, they impale the attacker and release the toxin, which causes extreme pain and paralysis.1
E kotsi go le kae go batho?
Kotsi go batho: Kotsi e nnyeJaaka go tlhabiwa ke notshe kgotsa go le kwa tlase. Ga e na kotsi go batho.E dira eng fa e tshogile?
When threatened it shrinks by pulling its tentacles into its body and forcing out most of the water, which reduces the surface a predator can attack.1
Fa e tlhaba
- Tswa mo metsing mme o tlose mesela (tentacles) epe fela e e setseng (ka ditlelafo kgotsa ka lesela).
- Ya dijelifishi tsa lebokoso tsa tropiki: tshela asene mo mafelong a a tlhabilweng bonnye metsotswana e le 30, bitsa thuso mme o ipaakanyetse go dira CPR. Ya dibluebottle le tse dingwe tse dintsi: tlhatswa ka metsi a lewatle, morago ka metsi a a mogote go fokotsa botlhoko.
Ka gale leletsa nomoro ya gago ya tshoganyetso pele (112, 000, 911). Se ke kaelo e e akaretsang ya thuso ya ntlha, ga se kgakololo ya bongaka. Motheo wa thuso ya ntlha
Nna o babalesegile
- O se ka wa ama, wa tshwara kgotsa wa tshwenya phologolo ya naga, le fa e le e nnye, le fa e lebega e robetse kgotsa e sule.
- E fe sebaka. Fa o kopana le yone, ritibala, boela morago ka bonya mme o e tlogele e tsamaye ka tsela ya yone.
- Fa e nngwe e go tlhaba: ritibala, o se ka wa tshikinyega, leletsa nomoro ya gago ya tshoganyetso (112, 000, 911) kgotsa o ye bookelong ka bonako. Gopola gore e ne e lebega jang, setshwantsho se a thusa.
Ga e go batle. E dirisa botlhole jwa yone go tshwara dijo kgotsa go itshireletsa, mme e rata go iphitlha go feta. Go le gontsi ka go nna o babalesegile
Kae mo lefatsheng?
E kgolo go le kae?
E telele go le kae?
boleele jo bo lekanang le diboloko tsa go aga tsa ditshamekisi di le 5 mo moleng
bonya go feta kgopa ya tshingwanaGiant Caribbean sea anemone e kgolo go le kae fa e bapisiwa le WENA?
Ke dipalo fela mo sefetleng sa gago (browser). Ga go sepe se se bolokwang kgotsa se se romelwang gope.
E bonako go le kae?
Dintlha
Its nerve cells contain proteins that are molecularly similar to those in mammal nerve cells, which helps scientists study how nervous systems evolved.1
Fish and cleaner shrimp shelter among its tentacles, and it serves as a base station for fish cleaning.1
Although mostly stuck in place, it can crawl very slowly on its base, the pedal disc.1
Its larvae carry their own food in a yolk, so starvation is unlikely and they can drift far to spread out.1
Most individuals are either male or female, with a roughly equal ratio of the two sexes, though they occasionally have both.1
Ya baitseanape ba botlhole
- Leina la saense
- Condylactis gigantea
- Setlhopha
- Dijelifishi le dibopiwa tsa lewatle tse di tlhabang
- Lelapa
- Actiniidae2
- Lekoko
- Actiniaria
- Dikontinente
- Lewatle la Atlantic, Lewatle la Caribbean, Gulf ya Mexico, Mawatle
- Masea
- Eggs and sperm are released into the water, where fertilisation happens. The fertilised egg becomes a larva that settles on the seabed and grows into an adult.1
- Kotsi go batho
- 1 / 5: Kotsi e nnye3
Kwa dintlha di tswang teng
- Condylactis gigantea (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Condylactis gigantea (iNaturalist): maina le thulaganyo ya mefuta.
- Venom Wiki: seelo sa kotsi, bogolo jo bo tlwaelegileng le kakanyo ya lebelo ke tsa rona. Bona kafa re di balang ka teng: Kafa re lekanyang kotsi ka teng.
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Mesela e e tlhabang

