Ball Anemone

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I found 2 of these and posted a photo a while back. No definitive id
I have since read ball nems are actually mushrooms more than nems?

Here's a shot of the bigger I have found.

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I found 2 of these and posted a photo a while back. No definitive id
I have since read ball nems are actually mushrooms more than nems?

Here's a shot of the bigger I have found.

20230103_230123.jpg
Ball anemones are Corallimorphs, same as mushrooms, but they come from different families in the order Corallimorpharia. Not all nems with ball-shaped tips are ball nems though.

That said, seeing the ball shapes on a few of the tentacle tips, I'd like to suggest the club-tipped anemones again for those who are better with nem ID to consider:
I'm not a nem expert by any means, so hopefully someone can tell if I'm way off base, but might it possibly be a Telmatactis sp. such as Telmatactis ternatana, T. decora, or T. panamensis?
 

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