{"id":19862,"date":"2025-02-21T13:20:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/school-of-science\/?p=19862"},"modified":"2025-12-12T16:14:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:14:21","slug":"school-of-science-student-and-professor-highlight-discovery-a-non-native-sea-anemone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/school-of-science\/2025\/02\/21\/school-of-science-student-and-professor-highlight-discovery-a-non-native-sea-anemone\/","title":{"rendered":"School of Science student and professor highlight discovery a non-native sea anemone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>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 <em>Antinia Equina<\/em> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/journal-of-the-marine-biological-association-of-the-united-kingdom\/article\/first-record-of-the-sea-anemone-actinia-equina-cnidaria-anthozoa-on-the-midatlantic-coast-of-the-united-states\/0E4C1F9AC74C265716C082404E4C619E\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"612\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/school-of-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/401\/2025\/02\/image-1024x612.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/school-of-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/401\/2025\/02\/image-1024x612.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/school-of-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/401\/2025\/02\/image-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/school-of-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/401\/2025\/02\/image-768x459.png 768w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/school-of-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/401\/2025\/02\/image-150x90.png 150w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/school-of-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/401\/2025\/02\/image.png 1305w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":276,"featured_media":19863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-department-of-biology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/school-of-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/school-of-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/school-of-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/school-of-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/276"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/school-of-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19862"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/school-of-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19919,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/school-of-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19862\/revisions\/19919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/school-of-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/school-of-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/school-of-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/school-of-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}