Stylobates calcifer
Amazing fact
The Himekinkara sea anemone contracts when food particles fall onto its mouth or tentacles.
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The Himekinkara sea anemone contracts when food particles fall onto its mouth or tentacles.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Stylobates calcifer
- Scientific name
- Stylobates calcifer
- Japanese name
- ヒメキンカライソギンチャク
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Hexacorallia
- Order
- Actiniaria
- Family
- Actiniidae
- Genus
- Stylobates
A sea anemone described as a new species, found in the Kumano Sea and Sagami Bay.
It lives on the shell carried by a jingorou hermit crab and adds a shell-like structure to it with its own secretions.
Its species name comes from Calcifer, the fire demon in the novel Howl's Moving Castle.
How the Stylobates calcifer lives
It lives in deep waters of the Kumano Sea. It may eat bits of organisms and other organic matter falling to the seabed. After a jingorou hermit crab changes shells, the anemone may be carried to the new shell.
三重大学東京大学大気海洋研究所Basic data
- Range
- Kumano-nada and Sagami Bay
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 — ヒメキンカライソギンチャクChecked: 2026-11-04
- 東京大学大気海洋研究所 — ヤドカリの“宿”を作る新種のイソギンチャク！？ —深海の驚くべき共生関係—Checked: 2026-11-07
- 三重大学 — 勢水丸で採集された新種のイソギンチャクが「世界の注目すべき海洋生物の新種トップ10」に選出！Checked: 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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