These
anemones often look like red blobs of jelly stuck on a rock
when the tide is out. Under water a ring sticky tentacles emerges
which when touched fire off tiny poisonous darts into their
prey.
Anemones
are carnivores that capture food with sticky tentacles. Many
southern Australian anemones also have symbiotic algae living
inside their tentacles that assist in providing energy for the
animals.
A
large commercially collected species of herbivorous snail that
is usually found sub-tidally.
Barnacles
are permanently attached to the rocks on which they live after
spending the early phase of their life as a planktonic animal.
They feed by opening the valves on their shells and using long
hairy feet to strain plankton from the water.
A
scavenging and carnivorous snail with a variable patterns of
lines or checks on their bodies. These animals are often found
around dead creatures that wash onto the rocky shore.
A
large grazing mollusc that lives on the lower shore in exposed
conditions.
