
Unseen by many visitors, two species of the burrowing anemone Halcampa can be found in the FMR intertidal channels. Both H. crypta (12 tentacles) and H. decemtentaculata (10 tentacles) are small (1-2 cm in diameter). Student researcher Jacqueline Rajerison noted that both can be found burrowing in gravelly areas into sandy bottom, as well as at the base of eelgrass and algae holdfasts. (See Jacqueline’s December 2022 BTT article for much more information on these cryptic anemones!).
