CURIOUS INHABITANTS OF THE GULF STREAM 
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Photograph by L. L. Mowbray 
THE WHITE ARMED ANEMONE 
Sea-anemones, closely resembling beautiful and many-hued chrysanthemums, are found among the 
rocks in quiet waters along the Gulf shores. This low form of animal life feeds by arresting with its out¬ 
spread petal-like tentacles small particles of food floating by, which it then draws toward the central mouth. 
From a muscular base the anemone can move very slowly from place to place, one observation in the New 
York Aquarium showing a travel of forty-eight inches in the course of twenty-four hours. They have no 
food value for man, but are sometimes eaten by fish. 
As food-fishes, the snappers are perhaps 
the most important southern family. A 
snapper is an all-around, up-to-date fish, 
an evolutionary product of the keenest 
of all competition in the fish world, that 
at the tropical shore-line. 
THE WARY GRAY SNAPPER 
There is nothing peculiar or freakish 
about the snapper. He is just thoroughly 
successful and modern, active, adaptable, 
and clever—trim-formed, spiny-finned, 
keen-eyed, smooth-scaled, and strong¬ 
toothed. 
Almost anywhere one goes one can see 
little schools of the Gray Snapper through 
the clear tropical water, skirting the 
shore or the edge of the mangroves, on 
the lookout for small fry to satisfy their 
appetites, and at the same time with a 
weather eye out for possible danger. It 
would seem a simple matter to catch one 
on hook and line, but no fish is warier 
about being thus ensnared. 
Several species of snappers are almost 
equally abundant, the Muttonfish and the 
