Monmouth MEBP major Diedrik Boonman and Faculty member Jason Adolf are part of a team that recently published an article highlighting the initial 2021 discovery and subsequent examination in 2023 of a non-native sea anemone species. This marks the first record of the sea anemone Antinia Equina found on the Mid-Atlantic Coast of the United States. These animals were found in multiple sites on man-made rocky structures of the beaches of Monmouth County, New Jersey, on the Mid-Atlantic Coast of the United States. Student Dietrik Boonman is the first author on the article. The image below shows the anemone with tentacles extended (a-e) and tentacles contracted (f-j). More details can be found in the article published in the Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom found here.
