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Updated 12/16/2022

Family Actiniidae

INDO-WEST PACIFIC / HAWAII

WESTERN ATLANTIC 

Gyractis sesere


Kahului, Maui, 10 feet

South Maui

 

 

  

SESERE'S ANEMONE

Locally common within pockets on hard substrate with sand and rubble along the shoreline.  Adults green, young gray or tan with white flecks, oral disc with dark radiating lines.  It has a warty column and attains a diameter of 1.5 inch.  East Africa to Hawaii and Easter Island; Western Atlantic.  Formerly known as Actiniogeton sesere.