Column smooth, orange to red, tentacles red or yellow, often mauve-tipped. Cannot readily retract tentacles or close up. 3-5 rows of bubble-like, orange vesicles and one row of spherules just outside tentacles.
50 – 100 mm in diameter.
Found singly, because aggressively territorial, inflating its vesicles and raking them across unrelated, intruding individuals to sting and repel them. Preys mostly on mollusks and crustaceans. Has the most potent venom known for an anemone.
Two Oceans: A Guide to the Marine Life of Southern Africa (2016)
From Saldanha Bay to East London, Pseudactinia varia can also be present, although smaller (about 20 mm) and with only 1-2 rows of vesicles. An undescribed species has the column mottled white and can be found from Cape Peninsula to Aliwal Shoal.
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