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title: "Warty Sea Anemone"
description: "Bunodosoma cavernatum — Otros animales. Bunodosoma cavernatum, commonly known as the warty sea anemone or the American warty anemone, is a species of sea anemone in the family Actiniidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/es/animal/warty-sea-anemone
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Warty Sea Anemone

> Bunodosoma cavernatum — Otros animales. Bunodosoma cavernatum, commonly known as the warty sea anemone or the American warty anemone, is a species of sea anemone in the family Actiniidae.

- Scientific name: *Bunodosoma cavernatum*
- Category: `other` (Otros animales)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mar y costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 829
- Wikidata: [Q13446581](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13446581)
- iNaturalist taxon: [415301](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/415301)

## Names

- en: Warty Sea Anemone

## Countries with the most observations

US (248), MX (15), CU (4), CO (3)

## Summary

Bunodosoma cavernatum, commonly known as the warty sea anemone or the American warty anemone, is a species of sea anemone in the family Actiniidae. It occurs in the tropical and subtropical western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. It was first described in 1802 by the French naturalist Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc, one of fourteen marine invertebrates described and named by him.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunodosoma_cavernatum

## Photo

![Warty Sea Anemone](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/warty-sea-anemone/medium.jpg)

Photo: smokeybear33 · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/356287558

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/warty-sea-anemone?lang=es` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).