Magnificent sea anemone
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The magnificent sea anemone takes in food and releases waste through the same mouth.
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The magnificent sea anemone takes in food and releases waste through the same mouth.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Magnificent sea anemone
- Scientific name
- Radianthus magnifica
- Japanese name
- センジュイソギンチャク
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Hexacorallia
- Order
- Actiniaria
- Family
- Stichodactylidae
- Genus
- Radianthus
A species that grows large, found around the Ryukyu Islands and across the Indo-West Pacific.
How the Magnificent sea anemone lives
It catches prey that touch it with stinging structures and brings them to its mouth to eat. It also uses sugar made with sunlight by algae living inside its body. It may creep on the base of its body to move into more sunlight.
University of Michigan Museum of ZoologyWhere the Magnificent sea anemone 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
- 日本語
- センジュイソギンチャク
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 — センジュイソギンチャクChecked: 2026-11-04
- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology — Heteractis magnificaChecked: 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.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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