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Updated 12/14/2023

Family Stichodactylidae

INDO-PACIFIC

Stichodactyla magnifica



German Channel, Palau, 30 feet



Blue Corner, Palau, 30 feet


German Wall, Palau, 15 feet



Bleached, Central Philippines

 

Kamiali, Papua New Guinea

 

Wakatobi, Indonesia



Rainbow Reef, Fiji, 30 feet

   

MAGNIFICENT ANEMONE

Common on current-swept reef slopes.  Broad with free margins, blunt tentacles yellow, green, or tan, sometimes with blue, pink, or purple tips, column color variable.  Preferred by Amphiprion perideraion and Dascyllus trimaculatus.    Red Sea to the Society Islands, excluding Hawaii.  Formerly known as Heteractis magnifica.