Husbandry
Habitat: Mostly found buried in sand substratum of littoral zone.
Description: Column is smooth, inconspicuous verrucae and grey in colour. Oral disc is dark greenish blue, mouth located on the cone in most of the animals, oral disc covered with sediments. Tentacles are arranged in 2 or 3 orders at peripheryof the oral disc. Tentacles are long, tapered tips; small flower like projections attached right to the tentacles, arranged alternatively, highly branched and brightly colored.
Most of the tentacles are curved which looks like fishing hook.
Source: http://www.faunajournal.com/archives/2017/vol4issue4/PartA/4-3-21-315.pdf
Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Actiniaria (Order) > Nynantheae (Suborder) > Thenaria (Infraorder) > Endomyaria (Superfamily) > Phymanthidae (Family) > Phymanthus (Genus) > Phymanthus buitendijki (Species)