Bubble-Tip Anemone or Four-Colored Anemone

An illustration of Entacmaea quadricolor, otherwise known as Bubble-Tip Anemone or Four-Colored Anemone, by scientific illustrator Carolyn Bartlet Gast. The bubble-tip anemone come in a variety of colors and are found in tropical waters around the world. It has multiple inflating tentacles that it uses to collect food drifting in the water.

Bubble-Tip Anemone form a symbiotic relationship with anemonefish, also known as clownfish. It provides the clownfish safe shelter amongst its stinging tentacles and, in return, the clownfish protect anemone from potential predators.

Artist: Gast, Carolyn Bartlett Published: Hodges, Elaine R.S., ed. 1989. The Guild Handbook of Scientific Illustration. Van Nostrand Reinhold. Fig. C-1