Ceriantheopsis americana

Ceriantheopsis americana
Close-up of the crown;
the outer whorl of tentacles are large and the inner whorl small
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Subphylum: Anthozoa
Class: Hexacorallia
Order: Ceriantharia
Family: Cerianthidae
Genus: Ceriantheopsis
Species:
C. americana
Binomial name
Ceriantheopsis americana
(Agassiz in Verrill, 1864)
Synonyms
  • Ceriantheopsis americanus

Ceriantheopsis americana is a species of tube-dwelling anemone in the family Cerianthidae. It is a burrowing species and lives in deep sand or muddy sand in a long slender tube that it creates.