Alicia mirabilis

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Alicia mirabilis, the berried anemone, is a sea anemone in the Aliciidae family. It lives in the Azores, around Portugal and Spain, and in the Mediterranean and Red Seas. By day it looks like a cluster of berries. At night it stretches its body up to about 40 cm tall and opens its tentacles to catch food; sometimes the tentacles are longer than the column. Both the tentacles and the berry-like parts have stinging cells to protect the anemone and catch prey.

Classification: Kingdom Animalia; Phylum Cnidaria; Class Anthozoa; Order Actiniaria; Family Aliciidae; Genus Alicia; Species A. mirabilis.