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title: "Brooding Anemone"
description: "Epiactis prolifera — Outros animais. Epiactis prolifera, the brooding, proliferating or small green anemone, is a species of marine invertebrate in the family Actiniidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/brooding-anemone
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Brooding Anemone

> Epiactis prolifera — Outros animais. Epiactis prolifera, the brooding, proliferating or small green anemone, is a species of marine invertebrate in the family Actiniidae.

- Scientific name: *Epiactis prolifera*
- Category: `other` (Outros animais)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mar e costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 4173
- Wikidata: [Q2241181](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2241181)
- iNaturalist taxon: [49060](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/49060)

## Names

- en: Brooding Anemone

## Countries with the most observations

US (2725), CA (123), MX (4)

## Summary

Epiactis prolifera, the brooding, proliferating or small green anemone, is a species of marine invertebrate in the family Actiniidae. It is found in the north-eastern Pacific. It has a feature rare among animals in that all individuals start life as females but develop testes later in their lives to become hermaphrodites.

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

## Photo

![Brooding Anemone](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/brooding-anemone/medium.jpg)

Photo: Alex Heyman · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/70232348

## Machine access

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