Japanese feather star
Amazing fact
Japanese feather stars cling to rocks and other surfaces with root-like parts called cirri.
東京動物園協会（葛西臨海水族園）
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Japanese feather stars cling to rocks and other surfaces with root-like parts called cirri.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Japanese feather star
- Scientific name
- Anneissia japonica
- Japanese name
- ニッポンウミシダ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Crinoidea
- Order
- Comatulida
- Family
- Comatulidae
- Genus
- Anneissia
A feather star that lives in the seas south of the Boso Peninsula and Sado Island.
How the Japanese feather star lives
In places with good currents, it uses its arms to catch drifting plankton and other small food. It usually stays still in one place. It can use its arms to move from place to place.
東京動物園協会（葛西臨海水族園）Basic data
- Range
- South of the Boso Peninsula and Sado Island
Where the Japanese feather star 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 — ニッポンウミシダChecked: 2026-11-04
- 東京動物園協会（葛西臨海水族園） — 見た目は植物？ ウミシダのなかま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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