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Science 17 March 1967:
Vol. 155. no. 3768, pp. 1419 - 1421
DOI: 10.1126/science.155.3768.1419
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Swimming Sea Anemones of Puget Sound: Swimming of Actinostola New Species in Response to Stomphia coccinea

D. M. Ross 1 and L. Sutton 1

1 Zoology Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Swimming as a response of the sea anemone Actinostola new species can be elicited as a result of contact with the submarginal surface of another swimming sea anemone Stomphia coccinea. However, Stomphia does not swim as a result of contact with Actinostola. In all other known respects, swimming is caused in both species by the same stimuli, including certain starfishes, a nudibranch, and electrical stimuli. No agent that causes Actinostola to swim has been detected in extracts, rubbings, or dried matter from Stomphia.

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