(photos of Dirk Schories, Germany: specimen from King George Island, Antarctic)
Phymanthea pluvia resembles Phymactis papillosa but the color is not varying, brownish-orange, yellowish-orange, with paler apexes of large crowded columnar vesicles. The species is distributed from Peru to Central Chile.
Taxonomy:
Phylum Cnidaria
Class Anthozoa
Order Actiniaria