Much remains unknown about sea anemones, which are under-studied and difficult to preserve as specimens. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE – Resting in plain sight in the sands off Changi’s coastline, a sea anemone that looks like a pale strawberry was identified recently by local scientists as a species new to science.
“I remember when I was in the National Museum of Natural History in Paris in 2019, I looked through the shelves for two weeks just to make sure that nothing looked like this anemone.” Dr Fautin and Dr Yap helped discover the brown peachia anemone in Changi, which is also unique to Singapore The scientists involved in the study also decided to name the pink-spotted anemone after Dr Fautin because it is similar to another anemone with pink dots that she had named after her husband, Dr Robert Buddemeier.
“More commonly, the new species we are finding in the 21st century are smaller bodied, otherwise cryptic, or living in habitats that are very inaccessible,” she noted.
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