Proboscidactyla flavicirrata
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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Branching canals run through the bell of the Edakuda jellyfish.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Proboscidactyla flavicirrata
- Scientific name
- Proboscidactyla flavicirrata
- Japanese name
- エダクダクラゲ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Hydrozoa
- Order
- Anthoathecata
- Family
- Proboscidactylidae
- Genus
- Proboscidactyla
In its polyp stage, it lives together with a bristle worm called erako, on the worm's tube.
How the Proboscidactyla flavicirrata lives
The polyps stretch out long tentacles to take food from bristle worms. They also eat eggs released by that bristle worm. As the tube grows longer, the colony extends so its feeding polyps stay at the opening. Jellyfish bud from the polyp colony and are released.
Walla Walla UniversityBasic data
- Size
- Bell diameter: about 1 cm
- Range
- Northern Japan
Where the Proboscidactyla flavicirrata has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — エダクダクラゲChecked: 2026-11-04
- 市立しものせき水族館「海響館」 — 光りました！Checked: 2026-11-07
- Walla Walla University — Proboscidactyla flavicirrata Brandt, 1835Checked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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