Species Profile
Metridium
Plumose anemone
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumCoelenterata
ClassAnthozoa
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Metridium lives attached to rocks.
Carnivorous and sedentary.
Common in temperate seas.
Size & Structure
01
Tall cylindrical body
02
Numerous plume-like tentacles
03
White or pale colour
04
Broad basal disc
Metridium — 3D Model
No 3D model available
General Features
- Coelom
- Acoelomate
- Body plan
- Blind sac body plan
- Germ layer
- Diploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Radial
- Fertilization
- External
- Digestion type
- Incomplete, extracellular and intracellular
- Nervous system
- Nerve net
- Excretory organ
- Absent
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Type-I (absent)
- Development type
- Indirect
- Respiratory type
- Diffusion
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Gastrovascular
- Skeleton structure
- Absent
- Level of Organisation
- Tissue level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoconformer
Ecology
Predator of plankton
Space competitor on rocks
Part of benthic community
Economic Importance
Used in physiological studies
Educational specimen
Marine ecosystem research