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Unread 12/13/2010, 06:01 AM   #34
Randy Holmes-Farley
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Gigantea is not known to reproduce asexually.

It is reported to do so in the wild:


Incorporating fine-scale seascape composition in an assessment of habitat quality for the giant sea anemone Stichodactyla gigantea in a coral reef shore zone
http://www.springerlink.com/content/...3/fulltext.pdf

from it:

"At the end of the study, 43 anemones existed: nine had disappeared, six had been newly found, and one actinia had divided into three small individuals."


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