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Updated 12/17/2022

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

Wakatobi, Indonesia

 

   
   

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.