Showing posts with label Lucida ciliaris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lucida ciliaris. Show all posts

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Sea Life – Alderney 1993

alderny's sea life

The beautiful first day cover of Alderney  has sealed with the  WWF stamps issued  on November 2, 1993. The local FDC has post mark of WWF logo. The issue stamps are depicts 4 (four) species of sea life ,  Spiny Lobster (Palinurus elephas ), Plumose Anemone (Metridium senile), Seven-Armed Starfish (Lucida ciliaris), and Green Urchin ( Psammechinus milliaris).


Plumose Anemone, sea anemones found mostly in the cooler waters of the northern Pacific and Atlantic oceans. They are characterized by their numerous threadlike tentacles extending from atop a smooth cylindrical column, and can vary from a few centimeters in height up to one meter or more. In larger specimens, the oral disk becomes densely curved and frilly.
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