| Ceriantheopsis americana | |
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| Close-up of the crown; the outer whorl of tentacles are large and the inner whorl small | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Subclass: | Ceriantharia |
| Order: | Spirularia |
| Family: | Cerianthidae |
| Genus: | Ceriantheopsis |
| Species: | C. americana
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| Binomial name | |
| Ceriantheopsis americana (Agassiz in Verrill, 1864)[1]
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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.
- ^ Molodtsova, Tina (2015). "Ceriantheopsis americana (Agassiz in Verrill, 1864)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2018-09-17.