Locomotion

As a general rule, sea anemones are a benthic sessile organism that are able to lengthen, shorten or bend their bodies because of the presence of their longitudinal epidermal and circular gastrodermal musculature.  They are capable of slow movement along the substrate by gliding along on their pedal discs and when the need arises, some anemones are able to detach from their substrate to find a better settlement area, which is done by either an inchworm-like crawling or somersaulting movement.

Locomotion can be either through an inchworm-like movement (left side) or by somersaulting (right side) (Ruppert et al. 2004)