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I started underwater photography 20 years ago, and even among my first dives with a camera, I photographed things that I have never seen since. I always take the picture first, and try to sort out the story later. The underwater world is so diverse you may never see it again.

— Rudie Kuiter

Giant anemones are easy to spot because they nearly always host a pair, or small group of clownfish (Amphiprion and Premnas). (See "Clownfishes and their Sea Anemone Hosts," page

46.) These fish are not the only animals to take advantage of the security of the anemone's stinging tentacles. Porcelain crabs (Neopetrolisthes) and shrimps are also anemone commensals.

Corallimorphs. These animals (order Corallimorpharia) have some of the characteristics of anemones, and others of corals. In fact, however, they look like small anemones. They are mostly colonial, and consist of flat disks, 2-4 inches in diameter, with a smooth, napped or tentacled surface. One genus, Discosonia, is particularly colorful, overgrowing rocks with its bright blue, purple or red disks.