Unidentified Sea Anemone, North Yorkshire, ID needed please.

[Yashca]

I found this at Scalby, near Scarborough, North Yorkshire, last weekend. I turned over a rock and noticed it. At first I thought it was an odd coloured beadlet anemone, but the white bumps around the 'stalk' seemed quite unusual. I took a picture and then put the stone in a nearby rockpool to try and coax it it out.








As you can see, the tendrils of the anemone change colour towards the tip, which is also unusual, in my experience, for beadlet anemones.

I have only identified three anemone species at Scarborough, beadlet, dahlia, and plumose, and this anemone doesn't seem to fit any of these.

An ID would be great!

Thanks, Yashca

[Jim Greenfield]

Looks like a dahlia to me - Urticina felina. They often have warty projections on the stalk to which bits of gravel and shell will stick.

[gordonlowe]

can i ask where at scalby, near the beck outfall?
found the area lacking in anemones or am i looking in the wrong place?

[Yashca]

I never have much luck near the beck. When me and Force-11 go rockpooling there we tend to head out to the furthest point we can get too. Awesome at low tide - you can find edible sea urchins bigger than your fist, as well as plenty of sea lemons. Small lobsters are reasonably common as well.